Narrative gravity : conversation, cognition, culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Rukmini Bhaya Nair. |
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| Imprint: | New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| Description: | xi, 425 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4857997 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: First Conversational Steps
- Chapter 1. Structural Simplicities: The Grammar and Context of Narrative
- Chapter 2. Force, Fiction, Fit and Felicity: Narrative as a Speech Act
- Chapter 3. Performatives, Perlocutions, Pretense: Deconstruction and the Narrative Speech Act
- Chapter 4. Cooperative Conventions: Implied Meanings in Narrative
- Chapter 5. Rationality and Relevance: Mental Codes and Cultural Memes in Narrative
- 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
- Appendix I. The Flood
- Appendix II. Transcription and Translation
- Appendix III. Putative Emotive and Emotional Registers: An Evolutionary Perspective
- Appendix IV. Placements
- Appendix V. A Possible Course on Narrative Based on this Book
- Bibliography
- Index