Game of Thrones - A Conceptual Framework
Game of Thrones - A Conceptual Framework

Summary/Abstract: The study displays the conceptual framework, the assumptions that underpin and detail our perspectives on constructed language use both in the worlds of fiction and actual world, and the scientific rationale behind the present investigation. Our research objective was to point out the perspicuous distinctions between the employment of constructed languages within fiction, respectively fictional worlds, and their use in the actual world. The aim of the present chapter was to clearly state our ontological and epistemological perspectives on the nature of our target languages, and argue the proposition according to which these languages do not exist beyond the worlds of fiction and we only have a fragmentary understanding thereof. The study acknowledges the fact that our perception of the fictional world is an absolutely limited one and all the evidence we currently own is based on what we were able to retrieve from our research data (written and audio materials). However, we cannot neglect or ignore the possibility of the existence of other phenomena in the worlds of fiction that we have no understanding of. The focal interest of our thesis was to explore the plural worlds of fiction and the notion of transfiction or the transfictive use of our target constructed languages. Under these considerations, we wished to offer a broader theoretical overview of the most relevant concepts that we adopted to the context of our investigation and relate to our research objectives.

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