2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Languages without numerals: understanding the ourselves through the journey of languages in the world
Project/Area Number |
18K18507
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Medium-sized Section 2:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
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Research Institution | Kyoto University |
Principal Investigator |
NISHIMOTO NOA 京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 連携講師 (10712416)
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Project Period (FY) |
2018-06-29 – 2024-03-31
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Keywords | 記述言語学 / 数の認知科学 / 数詞の少ない言語 / 数え方 / 数の概念 / エスノマセマティックス |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Where globalization and information technology have advanced dramatically, regional individuality has become standardized. Even if languages do not disappear, the diverse concepts and insights unique to each region that have been handed down in the past tend to disappear.While knowledge of numbers and mathematics has been universal in human societies since ancient times and is an indispensable measure of culture and civilization, research on the history of mathematics and science in non-Western societies is far less extensive than in the West (Zalslavsky 1979). This study aims to document a "number culture" that will likely disappear. In addition to the Austronesian-speaking regions where I have been conducting field research, the target regions of this study are the languages of Australian aborigines and South American languages (mainly Peru and Bolivia) reported to have "no numerals " or "few numerals."
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Free Research Field |
言語学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
言語ドキュメンテーションは元来、小数言語や消滅危機言語とされている個別の言語の包括的記述と記録を目的としている。本研究は単一の言語ではなく、複数の系統の異なる言語を対象とし、数文化に特化したドキュメンテーションを試みる点である。次に、数文化に焦点をあてて、フィールド調査と文献調査の両面から分析を進め、観察することを通じて、日本・中国や西洋の数の概念に立ち返り、古今東西にある数える行為、数文化の多様性の中から類似性を見いだすことである。本研究を通じて、未だ新しい領域であり知られていないエスノマセマティックスの方法論を模索し、当該領域の学問体系を切り拓くことを目指す。
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