2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study of cognitive effects and social function of fiction
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16520198
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORIMOTO Koichi Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (20182264)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | theory of literature / fiction / metarepresentation / narrativity |
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| Research Abstract |
1.Cognitive effects of fiction : Fiction is the "decoupled" representation system, also a kind of metarepresentation, whose scope of truth value is restricted. In this study fiction's cognitive characteristics are examined, especially guided by the "scope syntax" hypothesis by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
2.Social function of fiction : Many parts of our consciousness about reality are constructed by public or social representations, such as learned knowledge and imformations based on the mass media or hearsay. They seem to consist of scope representations with various degree of certainty, including something fictitious, such as mythical religious assumptions or unreliable informations, of which it is hard for individuals to confirm the truth value. In this study it is examined, how such the fictitious is integrated to the ordinary cognitive process, and what their social function is.
3.Reality of fiction : As far as there exist relation and interaction between the real and the fictitious, the works of fiction themselves can be interpretively reappropriated to the real. But the reality of fiction is intrinsically experiened only on the very temporal process by individulas, when it is produced and consumed. Here begins a little to examine, how this part-process occurs.
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