1. 1. Introduction; 2. 1.1. Pragmatics; 3. 1.2. Fiction; 4. 2. The Pragmatic Structure of Fiction; 5. 2.1. Fiction and pretending; 6. 2.2. The pragmatic structure of fiction; 7. 2.3. The fictional context; 8. 2.4. The pragmatic unity of fiction; 9. 3. The Pragmatic Structure and the Reader; 10. 3.1. The competent reader; 11. 3.2. The historical reader; 12. 3.3. The implied reader; 13. 4. Pragmatics and the Interpretation of Fiction; 14. 4.1. The communicative context and fiction; 15. 4.2. Speech acts and interpretation; 16. 4.3. The pragmatic structure and interpretive strategies; 17. 5. Pragmatics and the Rhetoric of Fiction; 18. 5.1. The communicative context and rhetoric; 19. 5.2. The rhetoric of speech acts; 20. 5.3. The rhetoric of fictional models; 21. 5.4. The pragmatic structure and rhetorical motivation; 22. Footnotes; 23. References; 24. Texts