Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Narrative Gravity (eBook, PDF)

Conversation, Cognition, Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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 way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests that stories are a means of fusing causal and logical explanations of 'real' events with emotional recognition, so that the lessons taught to us as children, and then throughout our lives via stories, lay the cornerstones of our most crucial beliefs. Nair's conclusion is that our stories really do make us up, just as much as we make up our stories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134397921
• Artikelnr.: 42982768

Autorenporträt

Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her previous publications include Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference (2002), Translation, Text and Theory: The Paradigm of India (ed: 2002) and Technobrat: Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: First Conversational Steps 1 Chapter 1 Structural
Simplicities The Grammar and Context of Narrative (Guru: Labov) Chapter 2
Force, Fiction, Fit and Felicity Narrative as a Speech Act (Gurus: Austin,
Searle) Chapter 3 Performatives, Perlocutions, Pretence Deconstruction and
the Narrative Speech Act (Gurus: de Man, Derrida) Chapter 4 Cooperative
Conventions Implied Meanings in Narrative (Guru: Grice) Chapter 5
Rationality and Relevance Mental Codes and Cultural Memes in Narrative
(Guru: Dennett) Chapter 6 Turns at Talk Ethnomethodological Analysis of
Narrative Chapter 7 Self, State and Solidarity The Politics of Narrative
Chapter 8 Explaining Enigmas from Evidence The Cause of Narrative,
Conclusion: Final Narrative Sutras