2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Linguistic Conception as Design in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22615009
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Design science
Research Institution	Chiba University
Principal Investigator	HIGUCHI Takayuki 千葉大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (70375608)
Project Period (FY)	2010-04-01 – 2013-03-31
Keywords	デザイン / 美術史 / ことば / 概念形成 / ターミノロジー / デザイン思考
Research Abstract	This study examined how semantic contents of the words that were equivalents of 'design' in Japan had been formed and accepted, verifying usages of the words appeared in discourses on arts or design. The surveys focused on the three periods that were the Meiji period, when the western concept 'design' was introduced, the high economic growth period, when the katakana word 'dezain' was established, and present day, when the usages of 'design' are expanded. Based on examinations of the survey data, we clarified semantic contents of the intended words in each context of the discourses and discovered differences and transformations of the semantic contents in each period.

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