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

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Preface to the HTML Version 1997

Note on the HTML Version 1997 [READ ME FIRST])

Preface to the third edition

Contents

I. Outline of the National Language Research Institute

1. Objective
2. Reason for Establishment
3. Outline of Research Activities
4. Buildings and Expenditures
5. Organization

II. Summary of Publications

1. Regional and Social Varieties of Japanese
2. Structure and System of Modern Japanese
3. Statistical Studies on Modern Japanese
4. Language Development and Language Education
5. Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language
6. Papers, Year-books, Annual Reports, and other Publications

III. List of Publications

1.[List with Japanese and English titles]

2.[List with English titles only]

CONTENTS OF PART II

1. Regional and Social Varieties of Japanese

1.1 A Linguistic Survey of the Island of Hatizyo

1.2 A Language Survey in Sirakawa City and in Neighboring Villages

1.3 A Language Survey in Turuoka City, Yamagata Prefecture

Language Survey in Turuoka City, Yamagata Prefecture --After 20 Years from the Preceding Survey

1.4 Socio-Psychological Survey of Japanese Polite Forms

Socio-psychological Survey on Japanese Polite Expression --After 20 Years from the Preceding Survey in Okazaki City, Aiti Prefecture

1.5 Descriptive studies of Japanese Dialects

1.6 Dictionary of the Ryukyuan Language

1.7 The Process of the Uniformization of Standard Language Use --A Survey of Three Generations in Hokkaido

1.8 Linguistic Atlas of Japan 1 - 6

1.9 Index to the Dialects of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan

1.10 Basic Study on the Relationship Between Social Structure and Language 1 - 3

1.11 Some Aspects of Honorific Expressions --in special reference to discourse

1.12 Changes of Language Use --from the field work data in the northern part of Hukusima prefecture

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

1.14 Sociolinguistic Survey in Tokyo and Osaka --Analysis

1.15 Sociolinguistic Survey in Tokyo and Osaka --Data

1.16 A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Honorific Expressions in Japanese Private Enterprises

1.17 A Contrastive Study of Japanese and German Linguistic Behaviour

1.18 Diversity in Dialects --An Inquiry into the Reliability of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan

1.19 Social Changes and Standards of Honorific Behaviour in Japan

1.20 Aspects of Text and Context --An Analysis of Conversational Texts

1.21 Querying Dialect Survey Methods

1.22 Texts of Tape-Recorded Conversations in Japanese Dialects 1 - 10

2. Structure and System of Modern Japanese

2.1 Bound Forms ("zyosi" and "zyodosi") in Modern Japanese --Usages and Examples

2.2 Collection of "Okurigana Rules"

2.3 Research in Colloquial Japanese

2.4 Sentence Patterns in Spoken Japanese Part I --On Materials in Conversation

2.5 Sentence Patterns in Spoken Japanese Part II --On Materials in Speech

2.6 Japanese Homonyms and Their Problems

2.7 A Study of the Form of Characters Printed Horizontally

2.8 Word List by Semantic Principles

2.9 Japanese Synonymy and its Problems

2.10 The Writing Life of the Japanese People After the War

2.11 Research on the Consciousness of Okurigana

2.12 A Descriptive Study on the Meaning and Uses of Japanese Verbs

2.13 A Descriptive Study of the Meaning and Uses of Japanese Adjectives

2.14 Materials for the Study of Problematical Verbs and Adjectives in Modern Japanese

2.15 Index of Usiyazo~dan Aguranabe

2.16 A Stylistic Study of the Figurative

2.17 A Study of the Pronunciation of Vowel Sounds Based on X-Ray Film Materials--Prolegomena to the Study of Phonemes

2.18 A Study of Specialized Terminology: The Problems with Technical Terms

2.19 Writing-Form Variation of Words in Contemporary Japanese

2.20 Aspect and Tense of the Modern Japanese Verb

2.21 Concordance of Kokutei-Tokuhon 1 - 3

2.22 Changes in the Language of a Magazine

3. Statistical Studies on Modern Japanese

3.1 Research on Newspaper Vocabulary

3.2 Research on Vocabulary in Women's Magazines

3.3 Research on Vocabulary in Cultural Reviews

3.4 A Study of the Vocabulary in a Newspaper in the Early Years of the Meizi Period(1877-1878)

3.5 The Use of Written Forms in Japanese Cultural Reviews

3.6 Vocabulary and Chinese Characters in Ninety Magazines of Today 1 - 3

3.7 Vocabulary used in Ninety Magazines of Today: Table and Concordance Cards

3.8 Studies in Computational Linguistics 1 - 10

3.9 Studies on the Vocabulary of Modern Newspapers--Using Computer I - IV

3.10 Studies on the Frequency of Chinese Characters in Modern Newspapers(Interim Report)

3.11 A Study of Uses of Chinese Characters in Modern Newspapers

3.12 Studies on the Vocabulary of Senior High School Textbooks I, II

3.13 High School Textbooks Concordance of Vocabulary with Context

3.14 Studies on the Vocabulary of Junior High School Textbooks I, II

3.15 Concordance of Vocabulary with Contexts 1: Conversation-Data from the "Recorded Data" Column of "Gengo Seikatu" ('Linguistic Life')

4. Language Development and Language Education

4.1 School Children and Newspapers: Their Approach to the Newspapers and Their Comprehension

4.2 High-School Pupils and Newspapers

4.3 Youth and Mass Communications

4.4 Experimental Research into Reading Deficiencies--An Analysis of Oral Reading Errors

4.5 The Language Ability of Children in the Pre-reading Period

4.6 The Language Ability of Children in the First and Second Grades

4.7 The Language Ability of Children in the Third and Fourth Grades

4.8 The Language Ability of Children in the Fifth and Sixth Grades

4.9 The Development of the Language Ability of School Children

4.10 Communication Consciousness of Boys and Girls in Their Homes

4.11 Research on the Acquirement of Chinese Characters by Middle School Students

4.12 Reading and Writing Ability in Pre-School Children

4.13 The Development of Syntactic Structures in Children's Speech from 3 to 6

4.14 A Morphological Analysis of Verbs, Adjectives and Predicative Nouns in Children's Speech from 3 to 6

4.15 Grammatical Ability in Pre-School Children

4.16 Ability of Written Expression and Composition in Elementary School Children

4.17 The Lexical Ability of Pre-School Children

4.18 Tables of Vocabulary Obtained from Japanese Children by Association Method

4.19 A Record of Child-Mother Speech 1 - 6

4.20 Conceptual Development and Language in Children

4.21 Acquisition of Zyoyo Kanzi by School Children

5. Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language

5.1 A Study of the Fundamental Vocabulary for Japanese Language Teaching

5.2 A Contrastive Study of the Fundamental Vocabulary of Japanese, German, French and Spanish

5.3 The Educational Film Series for the Japanese Language --Basic Level(1 - 30)

5.4 Supplementary Teaching Materials for the Educational Film Series for the Japanese Language

5.5 The Educational Film Series for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language--Intermediate Level (1 - 12)

5.6 Applied Dictionary of Fundamental Japanese--Indonesian Edition

5.7 Japanese Language Series--Supplementary Volumes (3, 4)

5.8 Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language--Teacher's Reference Volumes (4 - 14)

6. Papers, Year-books, Annual Reports, and other Publications

6.1 Study of Language I - V

6.2 Occasional Papers 1 - 9

6.3 Bibliography of Japanese Linguistics--from 1942 to 1949

6.4 Bibliography of Japanese Linguistics from the Early Meizi Period to the Present Time

6.5 Japanese Language Year-Book

6.6 Annual Reports of the National Language Research Institute

6.7 Collection of Newspaper Clippings of Articles Related to the Japanese Language


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