This paper proposes an understanding of literary narrative as a form of social cognition and
situates the study of such narratives in relation to the new comprehensive approach to …

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 …

Although recent work in fields including discourse analysis, narratology, and narrative
psychology1 has thrown light on the forms and functions of stories, the project of developing …

Although recent work in fields including discourse analysis, narratology, and narrative
psychology1 has thrown light on the forms and functions of stories, the project of developing …

Study of the cognitive dimensions of stories and storytelling has become an important
subdomain within the field of narrative analysis. Concerned both with how people …

Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach,
learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate …

Research in the cognitive sciences, including fields such as psychology, linguistics, and the
philosophy of mind, can help foster the development of" postclassical" approaches to the …

Approaches to narrative study that fall under the heading of cognitive narratology share a
focus on the mental states, capacities, and dispositions that provide grounds for—or …

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly
expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative …

WHEN THEY FOUNDED the field of narratology in the middle to late 1960s, structuralist
theorists of narrative failed to come to terms with two dimensions of narrative that constitute …