fictionality as a feature of fiction.

The term “fictionality” has conventionally been used in connection with fiction to describe qualities
and affordances permisivitati of fictional genres

fictionality is by definition the quality possessed by fiction

When “fictionality” is used to denote a quality of a text, the grammatically substantive form is derived
from the adjective “fictional.” One can say of a story that it is a “fiction,” that it is “fictional” and that it
possesses “fictionality. However, the terms have not been used consistently and are sometimes
even used synonymously with other terms

distinctions between fiction, fictive, fictional and fictionality.

John searle

For Searle and the community of philosophers gathered around him, the differences between fictional and non-
fictional discourse did not depend on the actual content of the speech. Instead, it depended on the combined
intentionality of the speaker and receiver, what were known as illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. (We
might think of these as frameworks for producing and receiving speech.) As Searle writes, "The utterance acts
in fiction are indistingiushable from the utterance acts of serious discourse, and it is for that reason that there is
no textual property that will identify a stretch of discourse as a work of fiction."6 For the philosophers of
language, fictionality was not a distinct use of language, but depended on the intentions of both writers and
readers and the way those intentions were communicated beyond the boundaries of a text.
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The different approaches to fictionality as a term attributed to fiction have been divided into two and
sometimes even three categories: on the one hand, semantic and/or syntactic approaches that
regard fictionality as an intrinsic quality of a text; and on the other, pragmatic approaches which
claim that the fictionality of a text depends on different kinds of contextual relations (Schaeffer →
Fictional vs. Factual Narration). The main proponent for the semantic approach is Cohn, for the
syntactic Hamburger and Banfield, and for the pragmatic Searle.