Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-409) and index.
I. Intentionality and narrative worldmaking. 1. Grounding stories in reasons for action -- Worked example I. CAPA : beyond the narrative communication diagram -- 2. Situating persons (and their reasons) in storyworlds -- -- II. Worlding the story : narrative as a target of interpretation. 3. Building storyworlds across media and genres -- Worked example II. Oscillatory optics in narrative interpretation : worlding / unworlding the story -- 4. Perspective taking in narrative worlds -- 5. Characters, categorization, and the concept of person -- Worked example III. Scenes of talk in storyworlds -- -- III. Storying the world : narrative as a means for sense making. 6. Narrative as an instrument of the mind -- Worked example IV. Stories of transformation as frameworks for intelligent activity -- 7. Narrative embedding and distributed intelligence -- Worked example V. Narrative, space, and place -- 8. Storied minds (or persons and reasons revisited) : narrative scaffolding for folk psychology -- Coda : Narrative and mind : toward a transdisciplinary approach.