A revision of the language ideologies in Japanese modern era and a trial of the philological dialectology on the basis of the local educational materials in prewar erra

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370507
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Iwate University
• Principal Investigator: OONO Makio 岩手大学, 教育学部, 教授 (30160584)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YARIMIZU Kanetaka 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, 理論・構造研究系, 研究員 (20415615) ; TAKEDA Kouko 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, 理論・構造研究系, 研究員 (60423993)
• Research Collaborator: KOJIMA Satoko 岩手大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (70306249) ; YOSHIDA Noriko 実践女子大学等, 非常勤講師 ; KOJIMA Chihiro 北海道大学, 大学院教育学院教育学専攻, 博士後期課程
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 国語政策 / 方言 / 地方教育会 / 戦前期 / 国語観

Outline of Final Research Achievements

First, to grasp the shift of national language ideologies through the modern age of Japan, we have constructed the database (1,527 pdf files) of the dialect concerned articles extracted from the local magazines published by the prefectural institutes of education in the prewar era, which nowadays are scattered all over Japan. Second, as a trial to make use of the enormous amount of dialect information contained in the mass of documents made by the prefectural institutes of education in prewar era, we have constructed the database (14,681words) of dialects contained in “the local education reports of Iwate prefecture” which were submitted on 1936 and 1940 from all the elementary schools in Iwate, and analyzed the national language ideology borne by the school teachers at that time which were expressed in the preface of each reports. In addition to these results, we have held a briefing session of this project on February 2016 under the joint auspices of Iwate prefectural library.

Free Research Field

日本語学