Study about muilti-layeredness of mode of language and cultural border-crossing

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24617005
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 文化学
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: LEE Yeounsuk 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 教授 (00232108)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 文化的越境 / 言語様式 / 異文化接触 / 他者理解

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study I explore the cultural meanings of border-crossing, which involves moving from inside to outside across the border; that is, foreign experiences by intellectuals in the Meiji period and thereafter. In dealing with this problem, it is important to distinguish a dimension of fact and a dimension of expression. Experience consists of a variety of elements, but when it is expressed in linguistic forms, it is often tailored and arbitrarily constructed, whether consciously or unconsciously. But once expressed in particular discourse, it is frozen as a form of cultural filter through which the original experience is understood and interpreted. For example, it happens that the description of unfamiliar life in foreign countries becomes the channel of exposing the nationalistic sentiments.

Free Research Field

文化研究