3. Plan of the talk
Unofficial common ground accounts (Stokke, 2013; Eckardt, 2014)
Metafictive statements
Workspace account
Further research

4. Unofficial common ground
Harry Potter
Unofficial C
LOTR
Sherlock Holmes
C = <C0, C1, … , Cn>
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

5. Unofficial common ground
Harry Potter
Unofficial C
LOTR
Sherlock Holmes
Assertions: C +A p = <C0*p, C1, … ,Cn> ?
C0∪{p}
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

6. Unofficial common ground
Pride and Prejudice
Official C
Harry Potter
Unofficial C
LOTR
Sherlock Holmes
Fiction:
C +F,i p = {
<C0, C1, … , Ci-1, Ci*p, Ci+1, … , Cn>, if 1 ≤ i ≤ n,
<C0, C1, … , Cn, CBASE*p>, otherwise ?
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

7. Metafictive statements
“Fictional statements” (Currie, 1990)
Frodo had a very trying time that afternoon (The Lord of the Rings)
“Metafictive statements” (Currie, 1990)
A: Frodo was adopted by his uncle B: Actually, Bilbo is Frodo’s cousin
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

8. Metafictive statements: temporality
Conflicting intuitions:
1. The acceptance of fictional truths is temporary
2. We retain information about fictional content after engaging with narrative
“[A]n unofficial common ground need not be temporary in the sense of lasting a short time. There are arguably [unofficial] common grounds [that] continue to be operative for a very long time” (Stokke, 2013:55) C HP
Unofficial
LOTR SH
P&P

9. Metafictive statements: truth-values
Recanati (2002), Evans (1982), Walton (1990), Stokke (2013), Eckardt (2014)?
The Lord of the Rings-pretense
Truth-valueless
Currie (1990)
(In The Lord of the Rings,) Bilbo is Frodo’s cousin.
True or false depending on actual world

10. C W Workspace account <C, W> + p = <C, W*p>
Official C
Official C
<C, W> + p = <C, W*p>
Matravers (2014)
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

11. Workspace account Assertive closure: <C, W>  <W, W> W C
Official C
Assertive closure: <C, W>  <W, W>
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

12. Workspace account W C
□­­i
Workspace
Official
Fictivei closure: <C, W>  <C∪{□­­i(⋂W)}, C∪{□­­i (⋂W)}>
Lewisian In fiction i-operator: □­­i
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

13. C Workspace account □­­i □­j □­h □­­k W Official
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

14. Metafictive statements
Workspace account
Fictional statements W C
□­­i
Workspace
Official
Metafictive statements
Official C W
□­­i W
□­­i W
□­­i
<C, W> + □­­iq = <C, W*□­­iq>
<C, W>  <W, W>
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

15. Conclusions Further research Nature of * Nature of CBASE
Lies and bald-faced lies
Picking up where we left of
Unofficial common ground accounts do not adequately model metafictive discourse
Workspace account: - uniform workspace update
- assertive and fictive closure
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

16. Picking up where we left of
“Gollum […] held aloft the ring”
□­­k
□­j
□­­i
Official C
□­h W W
Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research