An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.1.18 Diversity in Dialects
- An Inquiry into the Reliability
of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan
(Report 84, 1985. 392 pages)
This report summarizes the results of an inquiry, which was
conducted between the 1965 and 1977 fiscal years, into the
reliability of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan. At the time of
this survey, the Linguistic Atlas of Japan (Report 30, published
1966 to 1974) consisted of a collection of expressions
selected from the Japanese language used nationwide, which
were used in specified contexts by people of a specified age,
sex, and residence history within a specified semantic
range. The geographic distributions of these expressions are
given on maps in the Linguistic Atlas of Japan. In the
section of the Institute which directed this research we conducted
various small scale surveys throughout Japan in order to ascertain
the nature of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan while drawing
the linguistic maps for the atlas. These surveys, which
formed the present study, Reliability of the Linguistic Atlas
of Japan, aimed to examine the diversity within linguistic
varieties and other related aspects which were studied in the
Linguistic Atlas of Japan. The majority of these surveys are
noted for their research methodologies in the
fields of sociolinguistic dialectology and structural
dialectology.
The contents of this report and their respective authors are
as follows.
Research Outline (SATO Ryo~iti)
1 Variation According to the Number and Selection
Conditions of Informants and Questions Used in this Survey-
A Survey Conducted in Ko~ti City (KATO Masanobu)
2 Variation According to Age in One Locality and the
Influence of Geographical Distribution- A Survey Conducted in
the Vicinity of Utunomiya City (TAKADA Makoto)
3 Variation in Age and Locality- A Survey Conducted in the
Vicinity of Hayakawa Valley, Itoigawa City, Ni~gata
Prefecture (TOKUGAWA Munemasa).
4 Variation in Locality (Diatopic) and Situational Context
(Diaphasic)- Surveys Conducted Along the Kumagawa River in
Kumamoto (SATO Ryo~iti)
5 Variation According to Locality, Age and Situational
Context- A Survey Conducted on Hatizyo~zima Island (SAWAKI
Motoei)
6 Problems Related to the Lexical Fields Used in the
Linguistic Atlas of Japan- A Survey Conducted in the
Mountain Region of Tyu~goku and the Inland Sea of Japan
(KOBAYASI Takasi)
7 Survey of the Same Informants 10 Years Later- Survey
Conducted in all the Areas of Kyu~syu~ (SATO Ryo~iti and
SIRASAWA Hiroe)
8 Geographical Word Accent and Individual Variations- A
Survey Conducted in the Southwest Region of Ehime
Prefecture (SANADA Sin'zi)
There is also a summary in English and an index at the end
of this volume.
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