CUCHUMBE HOLGUIN, Nelson Jair    LASSO SANCHEZ, María Angélica. The speech of fiction in the theory of speech acts: an approach from john searle. []. , 15, 24, pp.181-199. ISSN 0124-6127.

The contribution from the Speech Acts Theory of Searle to the fictional discourse is examined in this work. We accept that the meanings of linguistic statements used during a real discourse are the same meanings determining and establishing rules on the understanding between the author and the reader in the fictional discourse. According to this, a successful and creative communication by a fictional-work author is only made when he uses linguistic statements that follow the meanings of the words and linguistic conventions established in a real discourse. In order to make this idea convincing, in the first place, the concept of pretending and the concept of lying are contrasted through the analysis of the speech acts theory of Austin and Searle. In the second place, the features of the pretending act are questioned to show an examination of the fictional discourse beginning with the Speech theory and its acceptability. In the third place, analyze how the discourse of fiction does derogate from the rules for performing speech acts. Our conclusion is that by contrasting the serious utterances against the fictional utterances by the work of Carroll was a relevant issue that made possible the expansion of the understanding of how it is possible to create a literal speech acts in fictional works.

: Speech acts; horizontal convention and imagination; fiction; intentionality; pretending.

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