Narrative Thought and Narrative Language

Download or read book Narrative Thought and Narrative Language written by Bruce K. Britton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since before the dawn of history, people have been telling stories to each other and to themselves. Thus stories are at the root of human experience. This volume describes empirical investigations by Jerome Bruner, Wallace Chafe, David Olson, and others on the relationship between stories and cognition. Using philosophical, linguistic, anthropological, and psychological perspectives on narrative, the contributors provide a definitive, highly diversified portrait of human cognition.