The aim of the paper is to defend the view according to which all simple fictional sentences are meaningless. If their assertions seem to convey some truth evaluable information, and fictional sentences themselves seem to be true or false, it is because some pragmatic mechanisms are operative, enabling the expression of propositions not encoded in the semantic content of these sentences. According to some theorists, the mechanisms responsible for that process are the same as those responsible for generating conversational implicatures. I argue against that claim and maintain that to comprehend the information conveyed by a fictional assertion, one must determine what kind of fictional assertion it is and only then apply the relevant interpretative rule adjusted to the fictional sentence used in that act.

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虚构名称，用法和实用解释

本文的目的是捍卫所有简单的虚构句子都毫无意义的观点。如果他们的断言似乎传达了一些可评估真相的信息，而虚构的句子本身似乎是对还是虚假，那是因为一些实用的机制是有效的，可以表达未编码在这些句子的语义内容中的命题。一些理论家认为，负责该过程的机制与负责产生会话含义的机制相同。我反对这一主张，并坚持认为，要理解虚构断言所传达的信息，就必须确定虚构断言是一种虚构断言，然后才将适用于该行为的虚构句子应用相关的解释规则。