2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The study of the history of orthography in connection with dictionary data and concrete textual examples
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22520454
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
IKEDA Shoju 北海道大学, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (20176093)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
ISHIZUKA Harumichi 北海道大学, 名誉教授 (10002289)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 文字 / 漢字字体史 |
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| Research Abstract |
While character dictionaries (zishu 字書), rhyme dictionaries (yunshu 韻書), yinyi 音義 dictionaries and ziyang 字様 character models also display the actual glyphs, it is the commentaries that categorize them as ‘standard’, ‘vulgar’, ‘common’,‘corrupt’, etc. In this research, character glyphs and various types of commentary remarks are called together ‘dictionary data’. ‘Concrete textual examples’ refer to actual occurrences in primarily Buddhist canonical texts. The HNG database incorporates standard texts or ones assumed to be such. In order to examine the relationship between concrete textual examples and dictionary data, I compared the early Tang court sutra with the Kaicheng Stone Classics about their character glyphs. Furthermore, I use the case of the character 寂, the orthography of which exhibited changes in different time periods. As described in Ikeda (2013), the HNG database documents the evolution of the character 寂, which is written as in the Nanbeichao and Sui periods, as in the early Tang, and as 寂 in the late Tang.
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