Fact and fiction in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Abstract
Science fiction is a literary genre based on imaginative fiction and postulated scientific discoveries, the intersection of the world of science fiction and the world of reality. It makes people think about the future of the world and plays an important role in the predictions of a highly technologized world, society and their problems. A number of authors have been involved in technological predictions, a famous American writer Ray Bradbury among them, with his science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953). In this article my purpose will be to focus on the ontological juxtaposition of factitiousness and fictitiousness in science fiction literature in general and in the abovementioned novel in particular, concerning myself with bringing out the linguistic and stylistic properties of Bradbury’s novel in terms of literal and figurative language through the linguostylistic method of analysis. Moreover, I will also concentrate on certain cognitive notions and strategies that condition the factual aspect of the novel and contribute to the creation of an environment of cognitive estrangement and finally disclose the cognitive frameworks, resources, meanings, as well as the figurative language of the novel.
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