from Part I - Records and Force
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2026
In the last two chapters I introduced the notions of fictional records and embedded internal records, and I argued that importation and generation are distinct phenomena. What audiences think is conveyed by the author often goes beyond what is made explicit, and in many cases differs from what is fictionally true. Fictional records are fleshed out by audiences by means of importation. This chapter and the following two examine importation in more detail. We will see that there is a fundamental distinction between background and foreground in fictional records. I begin in this chapter by looking at presupposition accommodation.
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