Verdad y ficción. Literatura y política
Journal: ACTIO NOVA Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada
Year: 2021

The logical status of a literary statement is different from that of a standard act of communication, both written and oral. This distinction refers to two basic principles of linguistic pragmatics, that of cooperation and that of sincerity. When we communicate with someone, we not only tend to believe what they tell us, but reject the idea that their behavior in this regard might be the opposite. By contrast, in reading a novel, we voluntarily assumed the «willing suspension of disbelief» as de