Author(s)

Cunjiu Kuang

Corresponding Author

Cunjiu Kuang

ABSTRACT

John Searle has inherited the traditional theory of literary fiction, Wittgenstein’s concepts of “family resemblance” and language games, and Austin’s literary concept of “parasitic”, regarded literature, in its essence, as a “fictional”, “pretended” and atypical speech act, and developed his unique literary theory of speech act, which has important theoretical significance and value for contemporary literary theory development.

KEYWORDS

John Searle, “fictional”, “pretended”, speech act, literary thoughts