A contrastive study of functionally equivalent, but semantically different sign expressions in Japanese and German

• Project/Area Number: 17K02719
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Nishijima Yoshinori 金沢大学, 経済学経営学系, 教授 (20242539)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
• Keywords: サイン表現 / 機能的対応 / 意味的不対応 / 日本語 / ドイツ語 / 言語景観 / 機能的に対応 / 意味的に非対応 / 当たり前 / 対照

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Focusing on public signs that correspond functionally but not semantically in Japan and Germany, this study aims to classify the semantic differences in the linguistic expressions and then to explore the reasons for these differences. In order to explain why completely different semantic information is provided, it is necessary to relate what is "the obvious" in the communication of each society, that is, what is expected to communicate, to the differences in its behavioral principles. In this study, by classifying the semantic differences in the linguistic expressions in functionally corresponding public signs, I extracted the differences in semantic information expected to be provided in each society, and revealed the differences in the ways of thinking in communication between Japanese and German societies.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、日本とドイツの機能としては類似しているが、意味情報に差異が顕著に表れる公共サインの言語表現に焦点を絞って調査を行った。このような表現の分析はこれまで散発的に事例としては取り上げられることはあっても、客観的かつ体系的には分析されてこなかった。そこで、本研究は公共サインの言語表現を用いることにより、フィールドワークにより機能的には対応するが、意味に差異がある表現の収集と分析が客観的かつ体系的な形でできることになった。そこに本研究の意義を認めることができる。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] カフカの『隣り村』における「主観」世界と「事実」世界の対立――『木々』との構造的類似性―― (2023)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: 言語文化論叢 Volume: 27 Pages: 67-83
  • DOI: 10.24517/00069452
  • ISSN: 2436-3464
  • URL: https://kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/63218
  • Year and Date: 2023-03-30
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] Stickers on the Rear of Vehicles as Linguistic Landscapes : Analysis from a Stylistic Point of View (2023)
  • Author(s): NISHIJIMA Yoshinori
  • Journal Title: 金沢大学経済論集 Volume: 43 Issue: 2 Pages: 77-96
  • DOI: 10.24517/00069145
  • ISSN: 2432-2741
  • URL: https://kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/62909
  • Year and Date: 2023-03-01
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] “What is expected of the clerks by wearing <<in training>> tags?: An Analysis of Roles of the Tags” (2023)
  • Author(s): NISHIJIMA Yoshinori
  • Journal Title: Intercultural Communication Studies Volume: 31(2)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Asymptotic Analysis of Stickers on Cars as Linguistic Landscapes (2022)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: 文体論研究 = Studies in stylistics Volume: 68 Pages: 1-16
  • DOI: 10.24517/00065781
  • URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/00065781
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] シンポジウム報告：公共空間における言語使用―日本語、フランス語、ドイツ語の公共サインを事例に (2022)
  • Author(s): 山本大地・岩田一成・栗原唯・西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: フランス語学研究 Volume: 56 Pages: 85-97
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] カフカ作品における「唐突発言」――『不幸であること』における幽霊との会話の分析―― (2021)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: 言語文化論叢 Volume: 25 Pages: 127-148
  • DOI: 10.24517/00061567
  • NAID: 120006996017
  • ISSN: 2436-3464
  • URL: https://kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/55292
  • Year and Date: 2021-03-30
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] Irassyaimase as an Unreplyable Utterance in Japanese: Analysis of Ostensible Hospitality. (2021)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima
  • Journal Title: Intercultural communication studies : ICS Volume: 29 Issue: 2 Pages: 84-98
  • DOI: 10.24517/00061959
  • NAID: 120007037931
  • URL: https://kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/55684
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] “Irassyaimase as an Unreplyable Utterance in Japanese: Analysis of Ostensible Hospitality.” (2021)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima
  • Journal Title: Intercultural Communication Studies Volume: 29(2)
  • NAID: 120007037931
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] カフカの『判決』における連続する「お見通し発言」――思考動詞のスコープの解釈をめぐって―― (2020)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: 金沢大学国際基幹教育院外国語教育系『言語文化論叢』 Volume: 24 Pages: 77-102
  • NAID: 120006824368
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] A Contrastive Study of Functionally Equivalent, but Semantically Different Sign Expressions in Japanese and German: An Analysis of Preferred Expression Styles (2019)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima
  • Journal Title: Intercultural Communication Studies Volume: 28(1) Pages: 152-169
  • NAID: 120006975199
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] "Seeing-through utterance" as Wordplay: Interpersonal Games in Fictional Conversation of Franz Kafka (2019)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima
  • Journal Title: 金沢大学国際基幹教育院外国語教育系『言語文化論叢』 Volume: 23 Pages: 109-128
  • NAID: 120006607256
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 機能的に等価な日独対応表現の比較――比較の合理性をめぐって―― (2018)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: 社会言語科学 Volume: 21（1） Pages: 175-190
  • NAID: 130007552835
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Preferred Facing Directions of Pictures: A Comparison of Traffic Signs in Japan and Germany (2018)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima
  • Journal Title: Intercultural Communication Studies Volume: 27(2) Pages: 115-132
  • NAID: 120006975198
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 「カフカのテクスト Eine kaiserliche Botschaft の構造――文芸技法の言語学的分析――」 (2018)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: 金沢大学国際基幹教育院外国語教育系『言語文化論叢』 Volume: 22 Pages: 57-78
  • NAID: 120006455002
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 「機能的に等価な日独対応表現の比較――比較の合理性をめぐって――」 (2018)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Journal Title: 『社会言語科学』 Volume: 21（1）
  • NAID: 130007552835
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] What is Expected of the Clerks by Wearing "In-training" Tags?: An Analysis of Roles of the Tags (2022)
  • Author(s): NISHIJIMA Yoshinori
  • Organizer: The 27th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Car-stickers on Rear Windows: An Analysis from a Point of View of Linguistic Landscape (2022)
  • Author(s): NISHIJIMA Yoshinori
  • Organizer: The 3rd International Conference on Sociolinguistics
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Public Signs in Japan as a Sustainable Society: A Sociolinguistic Analysis (2022)
  • Author(s): NISHIJIMA Yoshinori
  • Organizer: 16th Meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 公共サインを言語間比較に使う (2021)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Organizer: 日本フランス語学会2021年度シンポジウム
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 言語景観としての車のステッカー ―ドライバーは何を伝えようとしているのか― (2021)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Organizer: 国際都市言語学会第18回年次大会
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Gender Differences in Hand Gestures in Disagreement: A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese (2019)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima, Jung-ah Choi, Sumi Yoon, and Dongling Zhao
  • Organizer: The 16th International Pragmatics Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] "Unreplyable" Utterances: An Analysis of Omotenashi-expressions in Japanese (2019)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima
  • Organizer: The 25th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Commnication Studies
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A Contrastive Study of Functionally Equivalent, but Semantically Different Sign Expressions in Japanese and German: An Analysis of Preferred Expression Styles (2018)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori Nishijima
  • Organizer: The 24th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Young People are Getting More Polite:Change in Use of Evaluating Concepts of Communicative Behavior in Japanese and German (2018)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori NISHIJIMA
  • Organizer: The 14th Meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Preferred Facing Direction of Pictures:A Comparison of Traffic Signs in Japan and Germany (2017)
  • Author(s): Yoshinori NISHIJIMA
  • Organizer: The 23rd International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 機能的には対応するが、意味情報の異なるサイン表現の日独比較――期待される表現スタイルの違い―― (2017)
  • Author(s): 西嶋義憲
  • Organizer: 日本文体論学会第112回大会
• [Book] Language and Cross-Cultural Communication in Travel and Tourism (2024)
  • Author(s): Soumya Sankar Ghosh, Debanjali Roy, Tanmoy Putatunda, & Nilanjan Ray
  • Total Pages: 277
  • Publisher: Apple Academic Press
  • ISBN: 9781774915707
• [Book] A Linguistic Analysis of Fictional Conversations in Kafka's Works (2022)
  • Author(s): NISHIJIMA Yoshinori
  • Total Pages: 155
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781527586529
• [Book] Cultural Diversity in Cross-Cultural Settings: A Global Approach (2021)
  • Author(s): Tamilla Mammadova (ed.)
  • Total Pages: 285
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781527573741
• [Book] Sozialer Wandel in Deutschland und Japan: 30 Jahre Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft fuer Sozialwissenschaften. (2021)
  • Author(s): Gisela Trommsdorff, Hans-Joachim Kornadt, and Carmen Schmidt (Hgg.)
  • Total Pages: 423
  • Publisher: Pabst Science Publishers
  • ISBN: 9783958537415
• [Book] Cultural Diversity in Intercultural (Cross-cultural) Communication: Global Case Studies (2021)
  • Author(s): Tamilla Mammadova (ed.)
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• [Book] The Crisis of Democracy? Chances, Risks and Challenges in Japan (Asia) and Germany (Europe) (2020)
  • Author(s): Carmen Schmidt and Ralf Kleinfeld (eds.)
  • Total Pages: 489
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781527541085
• [Book] Crisis of Democracy (2019)
  • Author(s): Carmen Schmidt (ed.)
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• [Book] ことばのパースペクティヴ (2018)
  • Author(s): 中村芳久教授退職記念論文集刊行会編(共著)
  • Total Pages: 528
  • Publisher: 開拓社
  • ISBN: 9784758922548
• [Book] Trust and Risks in Changing Societies (Proceedings of the 13th Meeting of German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences) (2018)
  • Author(s): Makoto KOBAYASHI, Gisela TROMMSDORFF & Carola HOMMERICH (eds.) (共著)
  • Total Pages: 418
  • Publisher: Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft fuer Sozialwissenschaften