Sociology,narrative, and the quality versus quantity debate (Goethe versus Newton): Can computer-assisted story grammars help us understand the rise of Italian fascism (1919–1922)? |
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Authors: | Roberto P Franzosi |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology/ Program in Linguistics, Emory University, 1555 Dickey Dr., Atlanta, GA 30322, USA |
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Abstract: | At the heart of this article is a structural approach to narrative, based on the work of Propp, Labov, van Dijk, Halliday,
and others. The article highlights the structural features of narrative—basically, the organization of the genre around the
semantic template actor-action-actor (syntactically rendered as subject-verb-object but where, in narrative, the subject is
typically a social actor and the verb a social action) and the modifiers of each element of this triplet, such as time and
space of action—and shows how to implement this structure in a computer environment and how to use this methodological tool
in socio-historical research (namely, the rise of Italian fascism, 1919–22). But, taking a cue from Halliday’s cover jacket
of his An Introduction to Functional Grammar, with its representation of a color circle, the paper takes the reader on an intellectual journey from Newton to Goethe—and
the quality versus quantity debate—to Goethe and Propp, to end, back home, with Simmel and Weber. |
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