The study of Mandarin Chinese analyzing from the perspective of foreign language learning of Westerns in Modern Times.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370513
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Aichi University
• Principal Investigator: SHIOYAMA MASAZUMI 愛知大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (10329592)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 朱 鳳 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 人間文化学部, 教授 (00388068)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 官話 / 近代欧人 / 外国語としての中国語理解 / 官話訳聖書 / 官話教科書 / 漢訳聖書 / 異文化翻訳

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explores the Mandarin that learned by Westerns as foreign language based on the descriptions in the textbooks and the Bible of the Mandarin version in Modern Times.
The changes of the definition of Mandarin that were provided in textbooks by modern Westerns mainly in UK and France were listed in chronological order.The study of Mandarin analyzed by Westerns, those were carried out to examine the features of the studies by Medhurst, Edkins and Lobscheid. Western scholars point out the important difference between Northern, Southern and the other Mandarin. We suggest an application of the Bibles translated by Medhurst into Mandarin and his Mandarin textbooks representing the characteristics of Mandarin in middle of the 19th century.
The analysis of Mandarin that Westerns described as sentences was mainly performed by comparing the text written in colloquial style of Western recipe and the dialogic writing of catechetical books published in the 19th century.

Free Research Field

中国語学