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Stories, Meaning, and Experience - Narrativity and Enaction (Hardcover, New)
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Stories, Meaning, and Experience - Narrativity and Enaction (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
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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.
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