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Communicating With Culture: How Humans And Machines Detect Narrative Elements, Wolfgang Victor H. Yarlott
Communicating With Culture: How Humans And Machines Detect Narrative Elements, Wolfgang Victor H. Yarlott
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To understand how people communicate, we must understand how they leverage shared stories and all the knowledge, information, and associations contained within those stories. I examine three classes of narrative elements that convey a wealth of cultural knowledge: Propp's morphology, motifs, and discourse structure. Propp's morphology communicates how roles and actions drive a narrative forward; motifs fill those roles and actions with specific, remarkable events; discourse groups these into a coherent structure to convey a point.
My thesis has three aims: first, to demonstrate that people can reliably detect and identify all three of these narrative elements; second, to develop …