Narrative Gravity: Conversation, Cognition, Culture
Author(s)
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
The core of Narrative Gravity is the idea that we do not make stories up; our stories make us up. Rukmini Bhaya Nair's remarkable book builds on Noam Chomsky's key insight that grammar functions as the inbuilt key to our identity as a symbol-using species. To this role of grammar as a cognitive tool in enabling us to construct 'selves', she adds a second tool: narrative. Her book analyzes the way in which narrative explains the world that is constructed by the sentences which our grammar enables us to construct.
Keywords
Discourse Analysis, Narrative, Discourse Analysis, Psychological Aspects
Discourse Analysis, Narrative, Discourse Analysis, Psychological Aspects
| Name in long format: | Narrative Gravity: Conversation, Cognition, Culture |
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| ISBN-10: | 0195657004 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780195657005 |
| Book pages: | 425 |
| Book language: | en |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
