2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on the Influence that Revision of Kanji Policy Exerts on Kanji Character Use

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21720167
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Principal Investigator	OGURA Hideki 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 言語資源研究系, 准教授 (00321547)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	文字
Research Abstract	This study clarifies what kind of influence the revision of the kanji policy had on the real kanji use from fact-finding of the kanji use based on large-scale data. As the example that the revision of the kanji policy affected the kanji use, the following thing became clear. (1) In deletion candidate character 28 characters of the Toyo Kanji Hosei Shiryo, there is the character that lowers the frequency such as renewal(附属→付属,濫用→乱用,膨脹→膨張,遵守→順守) having colonized. (2) Joyo Kanji(1981) addition 78 of 95 characters(82.1%) appear within the higher 2000th place in Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese(magazines), and fixation advances as the Joyo Kanji.

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