Narrative Gravity : Conversation, Cognition, Culture

Narrative Gravity : Conversation, Cognition, Culture

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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.

Narrative Gravity : Conversation, Cognition, Culture ,Rukmini Bhaya Nair,Oxford University Press, USA,0195657004,Discourse analysis,Discourse analysis, Narrative,General,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Linguistics,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Psychological aspects,Semiotics & Theory,Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics,Linguistics | Literary Stylistics

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