PRAGMATICS AND FICTION -- Editorial page -- Tilte page -- Copyrigh page -- Table of contents -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Pragmatics -- 1.2. Fiction -- 1.2.1. Fiction and reference -- 1.2.2. Fictional discourse -- 2. THE PRAGMATIC STRUCTURE OF FICTION -- 2.1. Fiction and pretending -- 2.2. The pragmatic structure of fiction -- 2.3. The fictional context -- 2.3.1. There is always a speaker -- 2.3.2. The speaker is always fictional -- 2.4. The pragmatic unity of fiction -- 3. THE PRAGMATIC STRUCTURE AND THE READER -- 3.1. The competent reader -- 3.2. The historical reader -- 3.3. The implied reader -- 4. PRAGMATICS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF FICTION -- 4.1. The Communicative Context and Fiction -- 4.2. Speech acts and interpretation -- 4.2.1. Speech acts in pragmatics -- 4.2.2. Speech acts in fiction -- 4.3. The pragmatic structure and interpretive strategies -- 5. PRAGMATICS AND THE RHETORIC OF FICTION -- 5.1. The communicative context and rhetoric -- 5.2. The rhetoric of speech acts -- 5.3. The rhetoric of fictional models -- 5.4. The pragmatic structure and rhetorical motivation -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- TEXTS.