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The Discourse of Risk in British and American Literature: From the Perspectives of Literature, Mathematics, Political Science, and Linguistics

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K13200
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionKyushu University

Principal Investigator

SHIMOJO Keiko  九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 准教授 (30510713)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 渡邉 智明  福岡工業大学, 社会環境学部, 准教授 (00404088)
内田 諭  九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 准教授 (20589254)
斎藤 新悟  九州大学, 基幹教育院, 准教授 (40515194)
谷口 説男  九州大学, 基幹教育院, 教授 (70155208)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords英米文学 / 数学 / 政治学 / 言語学 / 文学 / 国際政治 / 異分野融合型研究 / コーパス言語学 / 文学テクストの数理的分析 / 文理融合型研究 / 英語圏文学 / 数理学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have attempted and conducted several projects, and the following ones obtained concrete results while exploring the possibility of interdisciplinary research―1) The context of economy-related vocabulary in the twentieth century U.S. novels: Using a neural network program called word2vec, we examined some words in terms of economy. This examination clarified a significant shift in context of the word “money.” 2) The distributive analysis of a postmodern technique in war literature: Self-referentiality and inter-textuality in fiction are well-known characteristic features of postmodern literature, and they often become indicators of positional and psychological relationships between the authors/narrators and their narratives. In order to expose the difference in such relationships among some war novels, we quantified the frequencies of those techniques in those novels and analyze the distributions of them.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近代以降の学術研究の特徴として、多様な専門分野の分化と各々の独立的進歩が挙げられる。その結果、文系領域と理系領域の学術的交流はほとんど見られなくなった。そのような中、本研究は文学+政治学+言語学という多角的でありながら、堅実な手法を踏まえつつ、そこにリスク研究において不可欠な存在として発展してきた数理学の視点を取入れるという手法を用いた。その成果は上に述べた通りである。しかしそれ以上に意義があると思われるのが、このプロジェクトを通じて研究文化の大きく異なる4分野の研究者が協同し、研究のための共通言語を探求しながら、領域横断的な研究フィールドを開拓したことだと言えるだろう。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (1 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Vocabulary Comparison in Works of American Prose: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Using Word2vec2018

    • Author(s)
      UCHIDA Satoru, SHIMOJO Keiko, WATANABE Tomoaki, SAITO Shingo, TANIGUCHI Setsuo
    • Journal Title

      英語英文学論叢

      Volume: 68 Pages: 71-84

    • NAID

      120006473488

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Manuscripts from the Other Side of the World: Poe, Yumeno, and Message-in-a-bottle Narratives2018

    • Author(s)
      Keiko Shimojo
    • Organizer
      International Poe & Hawthorne Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 言及性に着目した戦争小説における数理的研究2018

    • Author(s)
      下條恵子、斎藤新悟
    • Organizer
      日本アメリカ文学会東京支部
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Word2Vecによる文学作品の時代比較:コーパスを軸とした異分野融合型研究の試み2017

    • Author(s)
      内田諭、下條恵子、渡邉智明、斎藤新悟、谷口説男
    • Organizer
      英語コーパス学会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Literature x Mathematics2016

    • Author(s)
      Keiko SHIMOJO and Shingo SAITO
    • Organizer
      ACL(x) 2016: Extra-Disciplinarity (American Comparative Literature Association)
    • Place of Presentation
      Pennsylvania State University
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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