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Languages without numerals: understanding the ourselves through the journey of languages in the world

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K18507
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Medium-sized Section 2:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

NISHIMOTO NOA  京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 連携講師 (10712416)

Project Period (FY) 2018-06-29 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywords記述言語学 / 数の認知科学 / 数詞の少ない言語 / 数え方 / 数の概念 / エスノマセマティックス / フィールド言語学 / 危機言語 / 数えるとは何か / 多様性と普遍性 / 数えるという行為 / 消滅危機言語 / 数学の歴史 / 生物多様性vs言語多様性 / 数詞のない(少ない)言語 / 民族植物学 / 数概念 / 数える行為 / 科学社会学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Where globalization and information technology have advanced dramatically, regional individuality has become standardized. Even if languages do not disappear, the diverse concepts and insights unique to each region that have been handed down in the past tend to disappear.While knowledge of numbers and mathematics has been universal in human societies since ancient times and is an indispensable measure of culture and civilization, research on the history of mathematics and science in non-Western societies is far less extensive than in the West (Zalslavsky 1979).
This study aims to document a "number culture" that will likely disappear. In addition to the Austronesian-speaking regions where I have been conducting field research, the target regions of this study are the languages of Australian aborigines and South American languages (mainly Peru and Bolivia) reported to have "no numerals " or "few numerals."

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

言語ドキュメンテーションは元来、小数言語や消滅危機言語とされている個別の言語の包括的記述と記録を目的としている。本研究は単一の言語ではなく、複数の系統の異なる言語を対象とし、数文化に特化したドキュメンテーションを試みる点である。次に、数文化に焦点をあてて、フィールド調査と文献調査の両面から分析を進め、観察することを通じて、日本・中国や西洋の数の概念に立ち返り、古今東西にある数える行為、数文化の多様性の中から類似性を見いだすことである。本研究を通じて、未だ新しい領域であり知られていないエスノマセマティックスの方法論を模索し、当該領域の学問体系を切り拓くことを目指す。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (18 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 5 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] 紐、砂絵、壁画、文字、オンライン交流ー人間の意思疎通の今と昔、そして未来へ2023

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Journal Title

      水野一晴教授退官記念文集

      Volume: - Pages: 61-62

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Artificial Numerals in Besiro and their use in Bolivia2022

    • Author(s)
      Noa NISHIMOTO
    • Journal Title

      The Proceeding of the 15th International conference for the Asian Association for Lexicography

      Volume: 15 Pages: 20-20

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 感性と言葉ー色彩表現を中心に2022

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Journal Title

      フランス語学会誌

      Volume: 202103

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 多様な言語が飛び交うマヨット島ーバスの車窓から2021

    • Author(s)
      Noa NISHIMOTO
    • Organizer
      フランコフォニー研究会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 感性と言葉ー色彩表現を中心に2021

    • Author(s)
      Noa NISHIMOTO
    • Organizer
      フランス語学会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Examining Intersections of Human knowledge system from synchronic and diachronic perspective: focusing on the use of rich flora and fauna2020

    • Author(s)
      Noa NISHIMOTO
    • Organizer
      Rethinking Humanities and its Entanglements, International Web-conference,Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University Kolkata (Online) ,
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Demonstrating the “non-existent world”-Lessons from linguistic field work in Bolivia for the quest to contact speakers of a language without numerals2020

    • Author(s)
      Noa NISHIMOTO
    • Organizer
      5th Interlinguistic Symposium, Adam Mickiewics University in Poznan, Poland
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Disconnected or connected?: The Impact of Covid-19 on Non-verbal Communication in Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Noa NISHIMOTO
    • Organizer
      oronavirus and Figuration, Thessaloniki, Cognitive Linguistics Research Group, Greece (Online)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] One-two-many counting as universal number recognition of human being2019

    • Author(s)
      Noa NISHIMOTO
    • Organizer
      第四回国際生態言語学学会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 心の歳時記ー美しさが産み出す芸術と科学2019

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Organizer
      古二屋発・初参加型研究発表会 心の歳時記ー美しさが産み出す芸術と科学
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「概念世界にある数(かず)を具現化する数(すう)-我々の数の認識の普遍性を探る」2018

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Organizer
      東京大学理学部生物学科研究室
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 人と人間の調和した環境創りを目指して-小島嶼地域を中心に2018

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Organizer
      第22回島嶼研究会、鹿児島大学国際島嶼教育研究センター
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 数の認知-言語の構造から探る2018

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Organizer
      京都大学エグゼキュティブ・リーダーシップ・プログラム
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 心のものさしー世界の言語の車窓から2018

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Organizer
      京都大学アカデミックデイ
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 数えない人生(仮)2021

    • Author(s)
      西本希呼
    • Total Pages
      256
    • Publisher
      京都通信社
    • ISBN
      0000000000
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 「ない」世界を理解するー京都大学アカデミックデイ2020 一般公開講座

    • URL

      https://research.kyoto-u.ac.jp/academic-day/a2020/a2020-p002/

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 東南アジア地域研究研究所スタッフのメディア掲載・社会貢献活動

    • URL

      https://research.kyoto-u.ac.jp/academic-day/a2020/a2020-p002/

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] オセアニア島嶼国の言葉―数にかかわる表現を中心に

    • URL

      http://www.chikyukotobamura.org/forum/salon131207.html

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-07-25   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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