| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Integrating qualitative information on speakers' social practice and research techniques from previous social psychological studies into the quantitative sociolinguistic paradigm, this study aims to theorize a causal relationship between variable local identities in a changing community under rapid globalization and synchronic variation in uses of a local dialect. The results show that local identity is a multi-faceted construct that consists of ideologies about globalization of the community, self-images, and both overt and covert attitudes toward local dialects and Standard Japanese. Speakers' responses to self-report questionnaires on their uses of a local dialect and topic-related style shifts to the local dialect in sociolinguistic interviews are found to be often mismatched, and the discrepancies can be accounted for by differing orientations to local identity.
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