Experimental models in narrative social reflectiveness

• Grant number: 16/20470-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: March 10, 2017
• End date: October 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Anna Christina Bentes
• Grantee: Ernesto Mora Forero
• Supervisor: Frank Hakemulder
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/06793-8 - Norm and narrative. Narrative cognition and normative dilemmas., BP.PD

Abstract

This internship research Project's main purpose is to develop an experimental model in the narrative "interpreter-response" area. This specific kind of experimental model is oriented to measure possible user social reflective responses of narratives about social situational facts represented in story fragments. Social reflectiveness is understanding here as a set of cognitive operations that permit related three fundamental elements of represented social facts: actions, reasons and social context (narrative worlds). The main hypotheses claim that through nuclear fragments of narrative structures, interpreters are stimulated to do comparative associations between elements or rules of different social systems (narrative worlds). I focused the analysis in two main nuclear cases: a. the transit of one character between two different social worlds, and b. the social dilemmas in which one character has to respond to the expectative of two opposing social worlds.