Cultural Dynamics of Narratives: Micro and Macro Implications of Narrative Transmission

叙事的文化动力：叙事传播的微观和宏观含义

• 批准号: DP0450518
• 负责人: Prof Yoshihisa Kashima
• 金额: $ 42.81万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-03-25 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0450518
• 关键词: Cultural; Dynamics; Narratives; Micro; Macro

Stories circulated in everyday conversations may have global implications by exerting a subtle cultural influence on social actions. Stories about martyrdom and wartime heroics, for instance, describe what goals a protagonist pursues in what way in what context. We propose that in communicating such stories people affirm and re-affirm for each other what they should do under what circumstances. The exchange of these stories can result in the formation and transformation of a large-scale cultural grouping, which may have significant socio-political implications such as extremist terrorism and intercultural clashes. We test these propositions in experiments and computer simulations.

日常对话中流传的故事可能通过对社会行为产生微妙的文化影响而产生全球影响。例如，有关殉难和战时英雄事迹的故事描述了主人公在什么背景下以什么方式追求什么目标。我们建议，在传播此类故事时，人们互相肯定并再次肯定他们在什么情况下应该做什么。这些故事的交流可能会导致大规模文化群体的形成和转变，这可能会产生重大的社会政治影响，例如极端主义恐怖主义和跨文化冲突。我们通过实验和计算机模拟来测试这些命题。