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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