Jerome Bruner’s scientific contributions

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Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
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January 1987

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3,148 Citations

Poetics Today

B. McH

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Jerome Bruner

Preface PART 1: TWO NATURAL KINDS 1. Approaching the Literary 2. Two Modes of Thought 3. Possible Castles PART 2: LANGUAGE AND REALITY 4. The Transactional Self 5. The Inspiration of Vygotsky 6. Psychological Reality 7. Nelson Goodman's Worlds 8. Thought and Emotion PART 3: ACTING IN CONSTRUCTED WORLDS 9. The Language of Education 10. Developmental Theory as Culture Afterword Appendix: A Reader's Retelling of "Clay" by James Joyce Notes Credits Index

Citations (1)

... Much of the scholarly work at the intersection of literary studies and cognitive science that I will review here often uses terms such as narrative and literature. The term narrative refers to a style of discourse that is characterized by a series of causally linked events that unfold over time, as opposed to the expository or paradigmatic style that characterizes scientific discourse (Bruner, 1986;Graesser et al., 1994;Scholes et al., 2006). Because it is interpretative of reality, narrative is always to some extent fictional (Bruner, 1986). ...

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Less Is More: How the Language of Fiction Fosters Emotion Recognition
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
  • Citing Article

  • January 1987

Poetics Today

B. McH

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Jerome Bruner