Science of Stories

<p><em>The Science of Stories</em> explores the role narrative plays in human life. Supported by in-depth research the book demonstrates how the ways in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their worlds and their own identities. </p><p>Based on linguistic analysis and computer technology Laszlo offers an innovative methodology which aims to uncover underlying psychological processes in narrative texts. The reader is presented with a theoretical framework along with a series of studies which explore the way a systematic linguistic analysis of narrative discourse can lead to a scientific study of identity construction both individual and group. </p><p>The book gives a critical overview of earlier narrative theories and summarizes previous scientific attempts to uncover relationships between language and personality. It also deals with social memory and group identity: various narrative forms of historical representations (history books folk narratives historical novels) are analyzed as to how they construct the past of a nation. </p><p><em>The Science of Stories</em> is the first book to build a bridge between scientific and hermeneutic studies of narratives. As such it will be of great interest to a diverse spectrum of readers in social science and the liberal arts including those in the fields of cognitive science social psychology linguistics philosophy literary studies and history.</p>