Character Interaction Network Analysis of the Literary Fiction Journey to the West Prequel
Social network analysis (SNA) has been applied to a wide range of academic disciplines and practical applications.Extracting social networks from literary texts, news stories and historical texts has become an important topic for researchers from different disciplines.The previous studies are mainly about micro-level (quoted speech or lexical structure) and meso-level (social events) and most networks are only one-mode, neglecting the relations between characters and social events.This paper extracts social networks in the macro-level (chapters of fiction) and meso-level (social events) and combines one-mode and two-mode network analysis together.First, two literary scholars manually extract social events from the fiction Journey to the West Prequel and manually recognize characters in the macro-level (chapters) and meso-level (social events).Then it constructs the one-mode and two-mode matrices based on the proposed standard formula which is based on the idea of co-occurrence.Then different matrices are computed and visualized by software (e.g.Ucinet, Netdraw and Gephi).The results show that the meso-level approach is better than the macro-level one in interpreting and revealing the contents of the fiction.Finally, the discussion and further researche are summarized.
social network analysis character interaction network journey to the west prequel gephi
CHEN Bikun XING Ya
Department of Information Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, Suzhou Library, Suzhou 215000, China
国际会议
武汉
英文
296-300
2016-10-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）