Narrative Gravity - Conversation, Cognition, Culture - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195657004 ISBN 13 : 9780195657005

Synopsis

This work is concerned with the interconnected areas of linguistic pragmatics, tural studies, and the philosophy of language that reveal the ways in which theories of communication have eliminated the role of the speaking human subject, highlighting the interconnections between speech and narrative which affect our understanding of words.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195657004
• ISBN 13: 9780195657005
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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