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Narrative Gravity Conversation, Cognition, Culture

Nair Rukmini Bhaya
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780415307352
Publisert
2003-06-12
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
970 gr
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216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
440

Forfatter
Nair Rukmini Bhaya

Biografisk notat

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).

Narrative Gravity Conversation, Cognition, Culture

Nair Rukmini Bhaya
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<p><strong>'<em>Narrative Gravity</em> is a truly international effort and a path breaking theorisation. It is going to inspire a legion of studies in the interpretation of narratives as cultural texts.'</strong> - <em>Gurupdesh Singh in The Hindu</em></p><p><strong>'Somewhat grandly, we need to learn how to hail Nair as one of the first to transform swords into plough-shares in the world of theory.'</strong> <strong>-</strong> <em>Probal Dasgupta in The Journal of the Central Institute of the English and Foreign Languages</em></p><p><strong>'[<em>Narrative Gravity]</em> is a rich source of material for those interested in the relation between the study of mind and literary narrative. Its synthesis of technical discourse analysis with postcolonial theories of nationalism is novel and exciting.' - </strong> <em>Jonathan Goodwin in Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press.</em></p>

<p><strong>'<em>Narrative Gravity</em> is a truly international effort and a path breaking theorisation. It is going to inspire a legion of studies in the interpretation of narratives as cultural texts.'</strong> - <em>Gurupdesh Singh in The Hindu</em></p><p><strong>'Somewhat grandly, we need to learn how to hail Nair as one of the first to transform swords into plough-shares in the world of theory.'</strong> <strong>-</strong> <em>Probal Dasgupta in The Journal of the Central Institute of the English and Foreign Languages</em></p><p><strong>'[<em>Narrative Gravity]</em> is a rich source of material for those interested in the relation between the study of mind and literary narrative. Its synthesis of technical discourse analysis with postcolonial theories of nationalism is novel and exciting.' - </strong> <em>Jonathan Goodwin in Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press.</em></p><p><strong>'This excellent text will be of much interest to those concerned with cognitive, anthropological and sociological approaches to the study of narrative.'</strong> - <em>Chaoqun Xie in Language, Volume 80</em></p>

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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This text explores the anti-foundationalist, anti-essentialist idea that our stories make us up, rather than we make up our stories. This is a foundational text for students of linguistics, philosophy and literary theory.
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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
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<p><strong>'<em>Narrative Gravity</em> is a truly international effort and a path breaking theorisation. It is going to inspire a legion of studies in the interpretation of narratives as cultural texts.'</strong> - <em>Gurupdesh Singh in The Hindu</em></p><p><strong>'Somewhat grandly, we need to learn how to hail Nair as one of the first to transform swords into plough-shares in the world of theory.'</strong> <strong>-</strong> <em>Probal Dasgupta in The Journal of the Central Institute of the English and Foreign Languages</em></p><p><strong>'[<em>Narrative Gravity]</em> is a rich source of material for those interested in the relation between the study of mind and literary narrative. Its synthesis of technical discourse analysis with postcolonial theories of nationalism is novel and exciting.' - </strong> <em>Jonathan Goodwin in Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press.</em></p>

<p><strong>'<em>Narrative Gravity</em> is a truly international effort and a path breaking theorisation. It is going to inspire a legion of studies in the interpretation of narratives as cultural texts.'</strong> - <em>Gurupdesh Singh in The Hindu</em></p><p><strong>'Somewhat grandly, we need to learn how to hail Nair as one of the first to transform swords into plough-shares in the world of theory.'</strong> <strong>-</strong> <em>Probal Dasgupta in The Journal of the Central Institute of the English and Foreign Languages</em></p><p><strong>'[<em>Narrative Gravity]</em> is a rich source of material for those interested in the relation between the study of mind and literary narrative. Its synthesis of technical discourse analysis with postcolonial theories of nationalism is novel and exciting.' - </strong> <em>Jonathan Goodwin in Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press.</em></p><p><strong>'This excellent text will be of much interest to those concerned with cognitive, anthropological and sociological approaches to the study of narrative.'</strong> - <em>Chaoqun Xie in Language, Volume 80</em></p>

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.
Les mer
This text explores the anti-foundationalist, anti-essentialist idea that our stories make us up, rather than we make up our stories. This is a foundational text for students of linguistics, philosophy and literary theory.
Les mer
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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415307352
Publisert
2003-06-12
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
970 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
440

Forfatter
Nair Rukmini Bhaya

Biografisk notat

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).

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