Narrative Gravity
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Author_Rukmini Bhaya Nair
belief formation processes
Category=CBX
Category=CF
Category=CFD
Category=DS
Category=JMR
Central Forensic Science Laboratory
Classical Speech Act Theory
cognitive narratology
Con
Conversational Implicature
Conversational Narrative
Criticise Speech Act
cultural memes
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
ethnomethodology
Everyday Speech Acts
Felicity Conditions
Fictional Discourse
Gricean Maxims
Gricean Theory
IAS Officer
Illocutionary Act
Indian Rope Trick
Language Games
Lewisian Conventions
narrative construction in cognition
Narrative Gravity
narrative performativity
Narrative Speech Acts
Nominal Kind
Perlocutionary Act
Perlocutionary Effects
Rule Iii
Rule Iv
Speech Act
speech act theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780415307352
- Weight: 970g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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).
