SPONTANEOUS NARRATIVE BEHAVIOURIN HOMO SAPIENS: HOW DOES IT BENEFIT TO SPEAKERS?

摘要

The fact that human beings universally put much energy and conviction in reporting events in daily conversations demands an explanation. After having observed that theselection of reportable events is based on unexpected ness and emotion, we make a few suggestions to show how the existence of narrative behaviour can be consistent with thesocio-political theory of the origin of language.