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Narrative gravity : conversation, cognition, culture / Rukmini Bhaya Nair.
LIBRA P302.7 .R85 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rukmini Bhaya Nair.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discourse analysis, Narrative.
- Discourse analysis, Narrative--Psychological aspects.
- Pragmatics.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 425 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-417) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195657004
- OCLC:
- 50559674
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