| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Although some geographers, folklorists, and social linguists have studied minor place names within Japanese rural villages, few have focused on the individual plot names of the areas characterized by rice paddies and dry fields surrounded by ridges. These plot names, which account for the smallest unit of place names within a Japanese village, are mainly used within a single household. This study showed the key findings on the naming methods of such folk plot names, based on case studies of Japanese villages in Shiga and Nagasaki Prefectures. It argued that the villagers name each plot using four cognitive linguistic methods: simplified attributes, part-whole relationships, spatial adjacency, and temporal adjacency. Based on the physical conditions, the frequencies of using such principles differ among villages. In addition, this study examined social and historical conditions as contexts of such naming methods of the case-study villages.
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