TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nair, Rukmini Bhaya.
TI  - Narrative gravity: conversation, cognition, culture 
SN  - 0195657004
U1  - 401.4121 NAI 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New Delhi, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative.
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  -  REFERENCE
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-417) and index
N2  - In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests that stories are a means of fusing causal and logical explanations of 'real' events with emotional recognition, so that the lessons taught to us as children, and then throughout our lives via stories, lay the cornerstones
ER  -