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This is a book about the human propensity to think about and experience the world through stories. `Why do we have stories?', `How do stories create meaning for us?', and `How is storytelling distinct from other forms of meaning-making?' are some of the questions that this book seeks to answer. Although these and other related problems have preoccupied linguists, philosophers, sociologists, narratologists, and cognitive scientists for centuries, in Stories, Meaning, and Experience, Yanna Popova takes an original interdisciplinary approach, situating the study of stories within an enactive understanding of human cognition. Enactive approaches to consciousness and cognition foreground the role of interaction in explanations of social understanding, which includes the human practices of telling and reading stories. Such an understanding of narrative makes a decisive break with both text-centred approaches that have dominated structuralist and early cognitivist views of narrative meaning, as well as pragmatic ones that view narrative understanding as a form of linguistic implicature. The intersubjective experience that each narrative both affords and necessitates, the author argues, serves to highlight the active, yet cooperative and communal, nature of human sociality, expressed in the numerous forms of human interaction, of which storytelling is one.Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-139780415715881
eBay Product ID (ePID)176687771
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
Publication NameStories, Meaning, and Experience: Narrativity and Enaction
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaDevelopmental Psychology, Data Analysis
AuthorYanna B. Popova
SeriesRoutledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight431 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorYanna B. Popova