Abstract
According to John R. Searle's Speech Act Theory, fiction assumes to be real illocutionary acts and Searle claims that fictional discourses imitate and parasitize on ordinary discourses. Gregory Currie and Gérard Genette criticize Searle's arguments and revise his theory of fiction. This paper contents that Searle's theory of fiction can prove to be a humanist philosophical perspective that emphasizes on the author's intentions, meanings of utterances and the context. The paper proceeds to argue that further research on the essential features of fiction can be done on the basis of investigating the merits and demerits of Searle's theory.
First Page
116
Last Page
121
Recommended Citation
Feng, Qing. 2012. "Fiction as Illocutionary Act: John Searle's Theory of Fiction." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (4): pp.116-121. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss4/6
