Thinking Stomach

This dataset was generated to test the hypothesis that eating in narrative fiction functions as a multi-dimensional human practice rather than a single-variable phenomenon (e.g., hedonic pleasure, symbolic representation, or individual rational choice). The study hypothesizes that food scenes co-activate six registers of practice—Essendi (being), Cognoscendi (knowing), Agendi (acting), Vivendi (living), Faciendi (making), and Operandi (operating)—and that stable coupling patterns between these registers recur across texts.

Data were collected from a purposive corpus of 27 novels selected for variation in period, genre, setting, and narrative style. The unit of analysis is the Food Narrative Unit (FNU): a bounded segment in which eating, cooking, provisioning, or bodily response to food is narratively foregrounded. FNUs were extracted using an explicit protocol with documented scene boundaries and decision rules. Each FNU was coded for dominant mode, secondary mode, and coupling tags (e.g., COG-ESS, FAC-AG, OP-AG). The deposited materials include coding outputs and audit-oriented logs/metadata to support transparent interpretation.

The data show that eating is consistently represented as a multi-register process. Across the corpus, recurrent couplings indicate that sensory experience is frequently linked to knowledge and self-formation (COG-ESS), craft and preparation often become practical agency (FAC-AG), and operational or infrastructural conditions shape what actions are possible (OP-AG). Additional recurring links (e.g., VIV-FAC, COG-OP) show that routine life and governance structures are embedded in food scenes rather than external to them.

Notable findings include: (1) cross-genre stability of key coupling pathways, (2) repeated movement from bodily sensation to interpretation and decision, and (3) co-presence of ethics, social order, and material constraint within single narrative episodes. These findings support an interpretation of eating as a distributed epistemic-ethical process.

This is a qualitative, theory-guided coded dataset intended for reuse and re-analysis. Coupling frequencies should be interpreted as patterned salience within this corpus, not population-level prevalence. Other researchers can use the FNU protocol and coding schema to replicate on new corpora, compare subsets (period/genre/region), conduct coupling-network analyses, or test alternative theoretical models on the same annotated units. Source material is published literary text; no human-subject personal data are included.

本数据集旨在验证一项假说：叙事虚构作品中的饮食行为是一种多维度的人类实践，而非单维度现象（如享乐快感、符号表征或个体理性选择等单一变量视角）。本研究提出，饮食场景会协同激活六种实践范畴——存在（Essendi）、认知（Cognoscendi）、行动（Agendi）、生活（Vivendi）、制作（Faciendi）与运作（Operandi），且这些范畴间的稳定耦合模式会在不同文本中重复出现。

研究数据取自经目的性遴选的27部小说构成的语料库，这些小说在创作年代、体裁、故事背景与叙事风格上均存在差异。本次研究的分析单元为饮食叙事单元（Food Narrative Unit, FNU）：指文本中以叙事手法突出呈现进食、烹饪、食物筹备或身体对食物的反应的有限段落。研究通过具备明确场景边界与判定规则的标准化流程提取FNU，并对每个FNU进行编码，涵盖主导模式、次要模式及耦合标签（如COG-ESS、FAC-AG、OP-AG）。提交的数据集包含编码结果、审计导向的日志与元数据，以保障解读的透明度。

数据表明，饮食行为始终被呈现为多范畴的复合实践过程。在整个语料库中，重复出现的耦合模式显示：感官体验常与认知及自我塑造相关联（COG-ESS），食物制作与筹备行为往往转化为实践性行动（FAC-AG），而运作或基础设施条件则决定了可实施的行动范畴（OP-AG）。其他重复出现的关联模式（如VIV-FAC、COG-OP）则表明，日常生计与治理结构内嵌于饮食场景之中，而非外在于场景本身。

重要研究发现包括：（1）关键耦合路径在跨体裁层面保持稳定；（2）从身体感受到解读与决策的转化反复出现；（3）伦理、社会秩序与物质限制会同时出现在单个叙事片段中。上述发现支持将饮食行为解读为一种分布式的认知-伦理过程。

本数据集属于质性、以理论为导向的编码数据集，可被重复使用与再分析。耦合频率仅可被解读为该语料库内的模式显著性，而非群体层面的普遍性。其他研究者可借助FNU提取流程与编码方案，在新的语料库上开展复刻研究、对比不同子集（按创作年代/体裁/地域划分）、进行耦合网络分析，或基于同一标注单元测试其他理论模型。数据集的源材料为已出版的文学文本，未包含任何人类受试者的个人数据。