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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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
Originally published: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: First Conversational Steps; Structural Simplicities The Grammar and Context of Narrative; Force, Fiction, Fit and Felicity Narrative as a Speech Act; Performatives, Perlocutions, Pretence Deconstruction and the Narrative Speech Act; Cooperative Conventions Implied Meanings in Narrative; Rationality and Relevance Mental Codes and Cultural Memes in Narrative; Turns at Talk Ethnomethodological Analysis of Narrative; Self, State and Solidarity The Politics of Narrative; Explaining Enigmas from Evidence The Cause of Narrative
Conclusion: Final Narrative SutrasThe Flood; Transcription and Translation; Putative Emotive and Emotional Registers An Evolutionary Perspective; Placements; A Possible Course on Narrative Based on this Book; Bibliography; Index
