03283oam 2200637I 450 991078381190332120230617001913.01-134-39791-71-134-39792-50-415-75408-91-280-07306-30-203-30109-910.4324/9780203301098 (CKB)1000000000252112(EBL)182537(OCoLC)437055406(SSID)ssj0000303951(PQKBManifestationID)11228567(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000303951(PQKBWorkID)10277837(PQKB)10320864(MiAaPQ)EBC182537(Au-PeEL)EBL182537(CaPaEBR)ebr10097368(CaONFJC)MIL7306(OCoLC)56342488(EXLCZ)99100000000025211220180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarrative gravity conversation, cognition, culture /Rukmini Bhaya NairLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (438 p.)Originally published: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.0-203-34966-0 0-415-30735-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 NarrativeConclusion: 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; IndexIn 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 cornerstonesDiscourse analysis, NarrativeDiscourse analysisPsychological aspectsDiscourse analysis, Narrative.Discourse analysisPsychological aspects.401/.4117.61bclRukmini Bhaya Nair1530698FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910783811903321Narrative gravity3857453UNINA