傳說研究視角下的臺灣新冠疫情謠言初探

A Preliminary Rumor Analysis Study about Taiwan Covid-19 pandemic from the Perspective of Legend Study

當代脈絡下的傳說研究，必須順應新的時空條件與時俱進，放寬研究視野，並將田野擴及網路社群媒體等新媒介。1970年代起，西方民間文學研究已將「類傳說」的謠言納入研究視野，視其為人類生活、思想和情感的表達，發揮其實用性與動能，使之成為一個更有現世性的學科，並為謠言研究提供了新思路和新視角。
傳說研究的視角如何分析疫情謠言？本文以數則台灣新冠疫情謠言為文本，嘗試以傳說研究的方法學與路徑，觀察在疫情「非常」的社會語境下，於社會互動過程中產出的疫情相關謠言，進行謠言文本內容與集體認同的分析，分析其中的套語、敘事模式、傳播、變異的過程與因素，並關注導致謠言消失/再現的因素，探討謠言文本中蘊含的集體認同、信仰、文化隱喻。

The study of legends in the contemporary age must adjust and expand itself according to contemporary contexts; its field also has to encompass new media, like social network service (SNS). Since the 1970s, folklorists in the west have included "legend-like" rumors into their spectrum of studies, and have viewed them as an expresion of human thoughts, feeling and life, whose practicability and dynamic can provide new perspective and ideas for rumor study, making it more worldly.
How could pandemic rumors be analysed in viewpoint of the study of legends? Using several rumors spread during the pandemic in Taiwan as texts, this paper attempts to utilize the methodology and path of legend research to observe the pandemic-related rumors produced in the process of social interaction under the extraordinary social context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper also aims to analyze the collective identity and concrete content of rumor texts, as well as the stereotypes, narrative patterns, processes and factors of transmission and mutation of rumors related to the pandemic, including the factors that cause them to disappear/reappear, and furthurmore, to propose possible discussions of the collective identity, belief, and the metaphors of culture contained in rumor texts.