ABSTRACT
As readers and text consumers, we have a propensity to actualize fiction. That is, we regularly interact with fictional entities as though they were non-fictional. Examples are myriad and multimodal: Quidditch is played on scores of college and university campuses and an annual world cup is organized by the International Quidditch Association (Williams, 2014); Wonka Bars are available for purchase in stores that are located outside of Roald Dahl’s book’s covers; Klingon and the Elvish language Sindarin are spoken by non-fictional people, and there are books about the grammar of Sindarin and Elvish vocabulary (Salo & Tolkien, 2004), as well as Klingon translations of Hamlet (Shakespeare et al., 2000) and the Bible. These are just a few instances of a phenomenon that has become widespread and commonplace.
