Narrative gravity : conversation, cognition, culture

Narrative gravity : conversation, cognition, culture / Rukmini Bhaya Nair.

In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a...

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Main Author: Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Discourse analysis > Psychological aspects.
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Discourse analysis > Psychological aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: First Conversational Steps; Structural Simplicities The Grammar and Context of Narrative; Force, Fiction, Fit and Felicity Narrative as a Speech Act; Performatives, Perlocutions, Pretence Deconstruction and the Narrative Speech Act; Cooperative Conventions Implied Meanings in Narrative; Rationality and Relevance Mental Codes and Cultural Memes in Narrative; Turns at Talk Ethnomethodological Analysis of Narrative; Self, State and Solidarity The Politics of Narrative; Explaining Enigmas from Evidence The Cause of Narrative
  • Conclusion: Final Narrative SutrasThe Flood; Transcription and Translation; Putative Emotive and Emotional Registers An Evolutionary Perspective; Placements; A Possible Course on Narrative Based on this Book; Bibliography; Index

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