@article{Zolyan_2022, title={“What can be described can happen too…”: on the imaginary conversation between the poet and the tsar}, url={http://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/701}, DOI={10.4396/SFL2021A12}, abstractNote={<p>We consider the possibility to formalize the semantics of text through the apparatus of modal semantics, esp. using S. Kripke’s notions of a model and model structure. As a demonstration of the abovementioned stands,&nbsp; we consider Pushkin’s draft note "If I were the Tsar”.&nbsp;&nbsp; The draft note reflects this biographically motivated intention, but it can be reconsidered as a short story that explicates Pushkin’s poetics on modality. Its incompleteness and multiplicity of final versions remind a post-modern technique of writing. One can find the same mechanism, though manifested in different ways, as it works in Pushkin’s literary texts: transforming a character into an author and an author into a character and reader. The draft note is written on behalf of the Tsar; his author (Pushkin) turns out to be his character. But in a fictional world where Pushkin became a Tsar, another Pushkin remained a poet who talked about real episodes of his biography. These worlds did not differ significantly from each other - in both worlds, the Tsar punishes the poet for his statements. The fictional&nbsp; text and the actual world are represented as mutually permeable semantic areas, and their inter-penetrability determines a multivalued interpretation.</p&gt;}, journal={Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio}, author={Zolyan, Suren}, year={2022}, month={Sep.} }