The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production (Advances in Discourse Processes)

From Preface to Volume III. The main object of the project, was to look for linguistic evidence that knowledge is stored in the mind in part analogically, and not only propositionally. As the project developed, however, a number of other hypotheses and findis regarding the relation betweenwhat people know and hwat they say began to emerge. This book presents some of the hypotheses and findings we thing worth putting int print. They are highly varied, covering a wide range of cognitive, cultural and linguistic topics, but they are unified in their elation to a single body of data.