A Stalnakerian Analysis of Metafictive Statements
Merel Semeijn · Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium · 2025
Because Stalnaker’s common ground framework is focussed on cooperative information exchange, it is challenging to model fictional discourse. To this end, I develop an extension of Stalnaker’s analysis of assertion that adds a temporary workspace to the common ground. I argue that my framework models metafictive discourse better than competing approaches that are based on adding unofficial common grounds.