By Alan Palmer
1. Introduction
Background
Summary
Some Definitions and Assumptions
What the publication Is Not
A be aware at the Texts
2. a few Narratological Approaches
Story Analysis
Possible Worlds
Characterization
Cognitive technological know-how and Frames
Focalization
3. The Speech Categories
Summary
The Prosecution
The Defense
Thought Report
4. the entire Mind
Functionalism
Language
Non-verbal Consciousness
Non-consciousness
Dispositions
Emotions
Action 118
First-Person Ascription
5. The Social Mind
Public Thought
Third-Person Ascription
The improvement of Purposive Thought
Dialogic Thought
The brain past the Skin
6. the fictitious Mind
Summary
The Continuing-Consciousness Frame
Embedded Narratives
The Storyworld
7. the fictitious brain in Action
Background
Thought and Action
Intermental Thought
Doubly Embedded Narratives
8. additional purposes
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I will explore in chapter 6 how the theoretical treatment of gaps has to take account of the special nature of fictional minds. Doleˇzel refers at some points to the semiotic procedures for the creation and re-creation of fictional minds, commenting that for the “semantics of fictional narrative, inferences regarding aspects and constituents of acting are of special significance” (1998, 175). He then cautions us in this way: “Yet many precautions have to be taken when inferring the mental traits of fictional persons from their actions” (Doleˇzel 1998, 176).