Narrative as Dialectic Abduction

This book explores the cognitive mechanisms behind narrative communicability, focusing on how abductive processes shape beliefs and actions in double consciousness. It demonstrates the effectiveness of novel inferences from working memory and highlights children's prelinguistic ways of resolving propositional conflicts through listening and re-telling. The book offers a theoretical and applied approach to facilitating narrative reconstruction in therapy, appealing to scholars and graduate students interested in narrative as an interdisciplinary phenomenon.

Format: Hardback
Length: 191 pages
Publication date: 20 September 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This captivating book delves into the intricate realm of narrative communicability, unveiling the cognitive foundations of Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatic model. Through a novel approach, it demonstrates how abductive processes shape and transform habits of belief and action, as referred to by Peirce as "double consciousness." These abductive processes, generated within double consciousness paradigms, hold greater efficacy compared to instinctual abductions. Moreover, the book explores the fascinating phenomenon of novel inferences from working memory seamlessly integrating with existing long-term memory units, enabling a more comprehensive examination of the plausibility of propositions. Special attention is paid to children's prelinguistic means of representing propositional or assertory conflicts, and their remarkable ability to resolve these conflicts through active listening and re-telling of narrators' accounts.

The book serves dual purposes, both theoretical and applied. It aims to provide valuable support for innovative therapeutic interventions aimed at facilitating the (re)construction of narratives by adults and children. Its practical applications and theoretical grounding will captivate graduate students and scholars alike, who seek to examine narrative as an interdisciplinary enterprise, encompassing the realms of ontology and culture. Ultimately, this account presents narrative as a transformative forum, capable of resolving logical and practical conflicts, compelling the interpreter to become an active participant in the very event being narrated.

Weight: 483g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031150920
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022