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Area of Science:

  • Computational linguistics
  • Narrative theory
  • Digital humanities

Background:

  • Scholarly debate exists regarding a universal underlying structure in narratives across disciplines.
  • Previous research has not conclusively identified common structural elements in diverse narrative forms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the existence of a common underlying structure in traditional and nontraditional narratives.
  • To analyze structural and psychological language categories across a large corpus of texts.
  • To determine if adherence to normative story structures correlates with narrative popularity.

Main Methods:

  • Employed computer-based language analysis to measure structural and psychological language categories.
  • Analyzed approximately 40,000 traditional narratives (novels, movie scripts).
  • Analyzed approximately 20,000 nontraditional narratives (science reporting, TED talks, legal opinions).

Main Results:

  • Identified a consistent underlying story structure in traditional narratives, comprising staging, plot progression, and cognitive tension.
  • Found no correlation between adherence to normative story structures and narrative popularity.
  • Observed distinct structural patterns in fact-driven texts compared to story-based narratives.

Conclusions:

  • Traditional narratives share a common structural framework, irrespective of their popularity.
  • Fact-driven texts exhibit structural differences from conventional storytelling.
  • Computational linguistic methods can reveal underlying patterns in diverse textual data.