par Dominicy, Marc 
Référence New Approaches in Text Linguistics (22-24 mai 2008: Bruxelles Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis)
Publication Non publié, 2008-05-22
Référence New Approaches in Text Linguistics (22-24 mai 2008: Bruxelles Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis)
Publication Non publié, 2008-05-22
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | Objective theories of truth generally mix up two very different assumptions. The truth of a sentence S is claimed to depend not only on how the world happens to be, but also on the existence of a fact that corresponds to S. Yet, facts support fine-grained distinctions that go far beyond the boundaries of simple (semantic) truth; facts (partly) pertain to the representational (i.e. mind-dependent and, in our case, language-dependent) dimension of truth. By failing to take this crucial dichotomy into account, most approaches to literary texts still consider fiction as a central (and highly problematic) property; but fictional discourse can be viewed as a “pretense” that produces a peculiar kind of semantic truth. If we focus on representational truth, we can understand how literary texts (in particular, poetic texts) succeed in providing us with new ways of looking at this very world we are living in. |
