What Is a serious discourse?

• Leclerc, André ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de Brasília

     Universidade de Brasília

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Principia: an international journal of epistemology, ISSN-e 1808-1711, Vol. 28, Nº. Extra 1, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue: What can we do in Philosophy using Logic?)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Serious discourse is regularly opposed to fictional discourse. But what is serious discourse? Fictional discourse is ubiquitous and raises challenging questions to philosophical semantics. How to define serious discourse in a non-circular way? I use action theory and speech acts theory to propose an analysis of what a serious discourse is. The notion of expectation is central, as well as that of satisfaction: in serious discourse, we expect the satisfaction of illocutionary act and of perlocutionary plans.