Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Narrative Gravity (eBook, ePUB)

Conversation, Cognition, Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134397914
• Artikelnr.: 47885599

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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