An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.1.10 Basic Study on the Relation between Social
Structure and Language (1), (2), (3)
(Report 32, 1968. 104 pages; Report 35, 1970. 197 pages;
Report 47, 1973. 107 pages)
These reports summarize a part of the work from the
cooperative study, "Fundamental Research on the Relation
between Social Structure and Language," carried out between
1965 and 1973. They take the form of 3 volumes since this
research was published in stages as sections of the survey
were completed. The reports consist of the following 6, for
the most part unrelated, papers.
Volume 1 (Report 32)
1 Basic Study of the Relation between the Social Structure of
Dialectal Societies, and Language and its System of Usage
2 Outline of the Change in the Agricultural Structure of
Postwar Dialectal Societies and the Change in the
Consumption Structure of Farm Families
3 On the Relation between the System of Usage of Kinship Terms
and Social Structure
Volume 2 (Report 35)
4 Common Dialectal Use and Technical Use of MAKI, MAKE
5 Case Study of Japanese Kinship Address/Reference Forms
Volume 3 (Report 47)
6 Survey Research on the Relation between Value Judgements of
Character and the Semantic System and Usage of Vocabulary Used to
Describe Character
In addition, the following paper which summarizes a part of
the research directed by WATANABE in this cooperative study, is
available.
"The Vocabulary System of Adjectives and Kinship Terms in the
Northern Hukusima Dialects" (Study of Language 3, 1967).
Due to the difficulty involved in giving a comprehensive
description of the contents of each paper, the description here
will be limited to one example. According to YANAGITA Kunio's
famous hypothesis, OYAKO is OYA TO KO. In contrast, in paper
4, WATANABE proposed the radical hypothesis that OYAKO is OYA DE
ARU KO.
This research was directed by WATANABE Tomosuke.
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