Abstract The aim of this chapter is to compare the pragmatics autofiction in Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and Siri Hustvedt’s Memories Future , two authors who, dissimilar but also very similar ways, use autofictional strategies refer their personal lives background without playing autobiographical game “by rules.” Focusing on how pragmatically they both create a sense autofiction, distinction will be es...

This paper considers the implications for philosophy of some recent approaches to pragmatics (with a focus on relevance theory) and makes two main points. First, the widening gap between sentence meaning and speaker’s meaning increasingly brings into question a basic assumption of much philosophy of language: that linguistic semantics provides direct insight into the structure of human thoughts...