LEADER 03283oam 2200637I 450 001 9910783811903321 005 20230617001913.0 010 $a1-134-39791-7 010 $a1-134-39792-5 010 $a0-415-75408-9 010 $a1-280-07306-3 010 $a0-203-30109-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203301098 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252112 035 $a(EBL)182537 035 $a(OCoLC)437055406 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000303951 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228567 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000303951 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10277837 035 $a(PQKB)10320864 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182537 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL182537 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10097368 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7306 035 $a(OCoLC)56342488 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252112 100 $a20180331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarrative gravity $econversation, cognition, culture /$fRukmini Bhaya Nair 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (438 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. 311 $a0-203-34966-0 311 $a0-415-30735-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $aConclusion: 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 330 $aIn 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 606 $aDiscourse analysis, Narrative 606 $aDiscourse analysis$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aDiscourse analysis, Narrative. 615 0$aDiscourse analysis$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a401/.41 686 $a17.61$2bcl 700 $aRukmini Bhaya Nair$01530698 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783811903321 996 $aNarrative gravity$93857453 997 $aUNINA