2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of the Relationship among Language, Body and Technologyin Trans-Atlantic Culture from the Viewpoint of Figural Rhetoric
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21520271
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Aichi Prefectural University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | カリブ海地域 / 文化理論 / ポストコロニアリズム / 表現媒体(メディア) / 修辞法 |
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| Research Abstract |
We have been accustomed to the binary way of thinking that “the advanced and civilized West and savage and uncivilized Africa.” However, when we consider the transatlantic culture including Europe, Africa, and Americas, from the viewpoint of what I call a “figural element” of culture, such binary opposition collapses. For linguistic rhetoric and physical mimicry often found in African and Caribbean culture has something in common with the leading-edge transatlantic and global culture in the sense that they share “figural elements.” Thus the achievement of this study is to have demonstrated a new way of seeing the transatlantic culture.
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