Narrative Persuasion. A Cognitive Perspective on Language Evolution (Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, 7)

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Narrative and Persuasion
	1 Persuasive Communication
		1.1 Rhetoric and Pragmatics
			1.1.1 Communication as Persuasive Argumentation
	2 Homo Narrans
		2.1 Functional Role
		2.2 Stories and Arguments
	3 The Plot
		3.1 Time and Narrative
		3.2 Time and Plot in Cognitive Psychology
	4 Events
	5 Narrative and Desire
		5.1 Engagement and Transportation
		5.2 Storytelling and Desire
	6 Adaptive Rhetoric
	7 Conclusions
	References
Two Models of Communication
	1 The Classical Thesis
		1.1 The Mathematical Model of Information
		1.2 Limitations of the Informative Model
			1.2.1 The Confusion Between Information and Semantic Content
			1.2.2 Encoding/Decoding
			1.2.3 A Model of Language
	2 The Manipulative Model of Animal Communication
		2.1 Selfishness vs. Cooperation
		2.2 Responses to Criticism
	3 A Synthetic Perspective
		3.1 Co-evolution
	4 Towards a Rhetorical-Pragmatic Model of Language
		4.1 Cognitive Effort in Comprehension
		4.2 Communication is a Form of Action
		4.3 Language and Sexual Selection
	5 Conclusions
	References
Beyond the Social Brain
	1 Thought as a Social Practice
		1.1 The Primacy of Factors External to the Individual
	2 Language and Narrative
	3 The Social Origin of Language: the Cognitive Perspective
		3.1 The Social Brain Hypothesis
		3.2 The Ostensive-Inferential Model
			3.2.1 Ostensive Origins of Language
			3.2.2 Is Mindreading Only Human?
	4 Global Coherence and Narrative
		4.1 Global Coherence
			4.1.1 Coherence Cannot Be Reduced to Cohesion
			4.1.2 Coherence Cannot Be Reduced to Relevance
	5 Mindreading and Storytelling
		5.1 The Extended Nature of the Narrative Dimension: Why the Social Brain Is Not Enough
	6 Conclusions
	References
The Narrative Brain
	1 The Oldowan Niche
	2 Navigation in Space
		2.1 The Sense of Direction
		2.2 Hippocampus and Cognitive Maps
		2.3 Landmarks
	3 Navigating Space-Time
		3.1 The Spatiotemporal Brain
		3.2 Time and Memory
			3.2.1 Clinical Cases
	4 The Narrative Brain
		4.1 The Default Mode Network
			4.1.1 Self-Projection
			4.1.2 Scenario Construction
	5 Narrating Means Navigating
		5.1 The Narrative Space
		5.2 Building the Plot
		5.3 Space/Time and Coherence
	6 Conclusions
	References
Stories Without Language
	1 How to Invent Language?
		1.1 Stories Without Language
	2 Bodily Mimesis
		2.1 Pantomime
		2.2 Animal Pantomime
	3 Verbalization and Grammar
		3.1 The Issue of the Expressive Means
		3.2 The Issue of the Represented Content
			3.2.1 The Synthetic and Holistic Models of the Origin of Grammar
	4 Communication and Conversation
		4.1 The Emergence of Modern Language
	5 Conclusions
	References