Conversation, Cognition, Culture
by
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
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...