Implicit Knowledge Visualization in Literary Works With Linear Space

Abstract

A new methodology with linear space analysis for literary works has been developed to clarify the implicit knowledge. The implicit knowledge has contained ideas, feelings, thought processes and patterns, styles and so on without being clearly formulated and defined in the mind. For analysis of novels by Natsume Soseki, spiral styles were visualized. This spiral style was supported as common sense that Natsume wrote novels theoretically and logically by many researchers. Miyazawa's novels were observed the wave styles, which mean his novels involve rich sensitivities. The other implicit knowledge has been also disclosed; Japanese and western cultures has been clarified through style analysis of Buddhist and Christian scriptures, and the receptivity of cross-cultural values has been revealed.
An implicit knowledge visualization through literary style analysis was based on fluid dynamical hypothesis. A hypothesis of linguistic fluid dynamics is assumed as sentences flows are linguistic fluid flow. A linguistic flow consists of four literary basic elements; sensitivity, logicality, image fluctuation in mind and multiplicity of word meaning. Sensitivity assumed as scalar potential in fluid is the motive force to put forward a logical discovery. Logical flow as vector potential in fluid is appeared with an image fluctuation caused by the change of writer's mind, leading to the multiplicity of word meaning.