About Context, Fiction, and Schizophrenia
Abstract
Studies focused on conversations involving individuals with pathologies such as schizophrenia have revealed the importance of underspecification. Consequently, semantic interpretation and context play a more crucial role. In this article, I present a framework for analyzing schizophrenic discourse that principally relies on a novel pragmatic context, one that takes its inspiration from analyses commonly applied to fictional discourse. This perspective sheds new light on schizophrenia and, more generally, on conversation context management.