Explicit References to Social Values in Fairy Tales: A Comparison between Three European Cultures
CoRR(2024)
摘要
The study of social values in fairy tales opens the possibility to learn
about the communication of values across space and time. We propose to study
the communication of values in fairy tales from Portugal, Italy and Germany
using a technique called word embedding with a compass to quantify vocabulary
differences and commonalities. We study how these three national traditions of
fairy tales differ in their explicit references to values. To do this, we
specify a list of value-charged tokens, consider their word stems and analyse
the distance between these in a bespoke pre-trained Word2Vec model. We
triangulate and critically discuss the validity of the resulting hypotheses
emerging from this quantitative model. Our claim is that this is a reusable and
reproducible method for the study of the values explicitly referenced in
historical corpora. Finally, our preliminary findings hint at a shared cultural
understanding and the expression of values such as Benevolence, Conformity, and
Universalism across European societies, suggesting the existence of a
pan-European cultural memory.
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