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Coping with imaginative resistance
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We propose to characterize imaginative resistance as the failure or unwillingness of the reader to take a fictional description of a deviant reality at face value. The goal of the paper is to explore how readers deal with such a breakdown of the default Face Value interpretation strategy. We posit two distinct interpretative ‘coping’ strategies which help the reader engage with the resistance-inducing fiction by attributing the offending content to one of the fictional characters. We present ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/jos/ffac007
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Semantics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 523-549
- Publication date:
- 2022-04-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-03-09
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1477-4593
- ISSN:
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0167-5133
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English
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1309537
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pubs:1309537
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2023-05-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Altshuler and Maier
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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