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100	0		_aNair, Rukmini Bhaya.
245	1	0	_aNarrative gravity. _bconversation, cognition, culture / _cRukmini Bhaya Nair.
260			_aNew Delhi: _aNew York: _bOxford University Press, _c2002.
300			_axi, 425 p. : _c23 cm. _bill. ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [399]-417) and index.
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aDiscourse analysis, Narrative.
650		0	_aDiscourse analysis _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_a REFERENCE.
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