| Project/Area Number |
21K01853
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
野澤 俊介 北海道大学, 高等教育推進機構, 准教授 (50771325)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | semiotics / metacommunication / contact / harm / Japan / harassment / institutions / linguistic anthropology / phatic function |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project explores the discourse of “harassment” as a metacommunicative struggle over how to control ‘(im)proper’ social contact, and how it compels key institutions like universities to anticipate potential events of harmful contact, as they seek to define themselves as a ‘proper’ liberal space.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Following the previous year’s research foci and strategies, the project has continued during the fiscal year 2023 to explore diverse instances of reflexive communication in institutional settings that draw salient attention to harmful or improper contact. The project has however experienced notable delay in undertaking planned research activities due to factors related to the principal investigator’s personal and professional circumstance. In terms of research accomplishments, the project has produced a conference presentation in a panel (co)organized by the principal investigator, which addressed themes centrally relevant to the project. After the conference, the panel participants suggested a possible future publication project, though this idea is still inchoate and no real action has been taken so far. The project’s research activities and insights are also reflected in a chapter published in an edited volume (an invited contribution), as well as an article in a peer-reviewed journal. While the project as a whole has experienced delay, some new loci of investigation have emerged, for example, the interaction between discourses of harmful communication and so-called “intercultural communication,” which will be more directly scrutinized during the final year of the project.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
The project is slightly delayed for reasons related to the principal investigator’s circumstances, which prevented me from carrying out research activities as planned. Given this delay, some of the ideas for research activities initially envisioned (such as fieldwork-based research) may have to be modified or redesigned so as to make them more feasible to conduct, though their significance in the project remains relatively unchanged. On the other hand, the analysis of textual material and the literature review have continued, and helped identify new loci of inquiry that I hope will further contribute to the project in a productive way.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The final year of the project is envisioned in terms of three phases or layers. In the first layer, the project will continue with collection of textual data while getting prepared for field-based activities including interviews. The second layer of the project involves participation in scholarly dialogue and sharing, both in more formal registers (conferences, workshops, etc) and also in more informal ways (for example, reading groups). The third layer, positioned toward the end of the fiscal year, involves the publication of findings in scholarly platforms. While at this point there is no concrete plan for such publication projects, there is a potential publication opportunity based on the past and ongoing collaboration with other scholars.
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