An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute: A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/ HTML Version(1997)

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II.1.13 Linguistic Sociological Study on the Kinship Vocabulary of Japanese Dialects (1)

(Report 64, 1979. 308 pages)
This book summarizes a part of the results of research on the topic "Linguistic Sociological Study on the Kinship Vocabulary of Japanese Dialects" conducted between 1973 and 1976. It consists of three parts, the introduction, the main text and the appendix. In the introduction we outlined the goals and methods of this research and the basic view of the director towards sociolinguistics. In addition, we defined kinship vocabulary and kinship members. The main text consists of the following 7 research papers. 1 Characteristics of the Meaning and Usage of Individual Kinship Terms which Refer to Family Members 2 Types of Japanese Reference/Address Forms Used towards Family Members 3 Data on the Extension of Use of Individual Family Terms in Japanese Dialects to Indicate Age Relations 4 How do Present-day Young People Interpret the Popular Song, OMAE HYAKU MADE, WASYA KYUZYU KU MADE, 'May you live to 100 and I'll live to 99'? 5 SASAOKA Tadayosi's Loyalty and Family Address Terms (SASAOKA Tadayosi, 1897-1937, was a visionary leader in the movement on writing themes on life in schools.) 6 A Case Study of the Polysemization of Japanese Family Terms 7 On the Common Japanese Dialectal Terms which Refer to "Younger Sons" and "Younger Daughters" The Appendix gives a list by geographical area of selected bibliographical references for the "To~zyo~ dialect cards" and "Supplementary dialect cards." This research was directed by WATANABE Tomosuke.

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