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Heritage Okinawan language and Japanese Okinawan: A comparative analysis of discourse structure and communication strategies

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23520466
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionUniversity of the Ryukyus

Principal Investigator

MIYAHIRA Katsuyuki  琉球大学, 法文学部, 教授 (10264467)

Research Collaborator Petrucci Peter R.  マシー大学, 人文社会科学部, 上級講師
Project Period (FY) 2011-04-28 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords継承沖縄語 / 相互行為助詞 / モダリティ / 言語景観 / 言語イデオロギー / 国際情報交換 / 会話分析 / コミュニケーション方略 / 大和沖縄語 / ニュージーランド / 米国 / 国際情報交流
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study addressed some issues of discourse organization and sociocultural utilities of heritage Okinawan language and Okinawa-substrate Japanese, a contact language between Japanese and Okinawan. It discovered some unique features of an utterance-final modality marker, “shiyoo ne.” It also identified sequential positions and respective functions of interactional particles, sa, yo, and wake in Okinawan talk-in-interaction.
Sociolinguistic analyses of Okinawan terms and expressions used in Okinawan diasporas led to a finding of a transnational network of Okinawans and Okinawans-at-heart, otherwise known as “digital Okinawa,” which has been recognized to play a significant role in promoting heritage language learning. Likewise, the analyses of linguistic landscape and commodification of Okinawan language revealed competing language attitudes and language ideologies that are now pervasive in local Okinawan communities.

Report

(7 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • 2011 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Book (3 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Massey University(New Zealand)

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 沖縄ことばのモダリティ標識「しようね」の一考察2016

    • Author(s)
      宮平勝行
    • Journal Title

      言語文化研究紀要 SCRIPSIMUS

      Volume: 25 Pages: 125-148

    • NAID

      120005973638

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] “Can you call it Okinawan Japanese?”: World language delineations of an endangered language on YouTube2016

    • Author(s)
      Peter Petrucci & Katsuyuki MIYAHIRA
    • Journal Title

      Journal of World Languages

      Volume: 3(3) Issue: 3 Pages: 204-223

    • DOI

      10.1080/21698252.2017.1308305

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora.2012

    • Author(s)
      Miyahira, K. & Petrucci, P. R.
    • Journal Title

      Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages

      Volume: n/a

    • Related Report
      2011 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Okinawan language (Uchinaaguchi) in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa Dori and Makishi Market.2012

    • Author(s)
      Petrucci, P. R. & Miyahira, K.
    • Journal Title

      Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages

      Volume: n/a

    • Related Report
      2011 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Laughing at US military occupation: Language play and political contestation in an Okinawan comedy series2015

    • Author(s)
      Miyahira, K. & Petrucci, P.
    • Organizer
      グローバリゼーションの社会言語学
    • Place of Presentation
      香港大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 沖縄くとぅば「~しようね」の相互行為モダリティ2014

    • Author(s)
      宮平勝行
    • Organizer
      国際危機言語学会
    • Place of Presentation
      沖縄国際大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-17 – 2014-09-20
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 復帰前後の経験2014

    • Author(s)
      宮平勝行
    • Organizer
      日本コミュニケーション学会
    • Place of Presentation
      琉球大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-21 – 2014-06-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] “Framing and reframing pirin paran katayabira online: The construction of Okinawan and Japanese language ideologies on the participatory web”2013

    • Author(s)
      Peter Petrucci and Katsuyuki Miyahira
    • Organizer
      The Fourth International Conference on Multicultural Discourses
    • Place of Presentation
      Hangzhou, China
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 市民生活における沖縄語の言語景観 (Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Okinawan community life.)

    • Author(s)
      宮平勝行
    • Organizer
      2011 Symposium of the International Association for Language and Intercultural Communication
    • Place of Presentation
      Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
    • Related Report
      2011 Research-status Report
  • [Book] "Interactional Particles sa and yo in Talk-in-interaction in Okinawa." Language Crisis in the Ryukyus2015

    • Author(s)
      Katsuyuki Miyahira & Peter Petrucci
    • Total Pages
      21
    • Publisher
      Cambridge Scholars
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] "Language Preservation in a Transnational context: Community efforts to maintain Uchinaaguchi in Sao Paulo." Language Crisis in the Ryukyus2015

    • Author(s)
      Peter Petrucci & Katsuyuki Miyahira
    • Total Pages
      20
    • Publisher
      Cambridge Scholars
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 石井敏・久米昭元(編)『異文化コミュニケーション事典』(母語と公用語,共通語と方言,コミュニケーションの民族誌,琉球・沖縄)2013

    • Author(s)
      宮平勝行
    • Total Pages
      8
    • Publisher
      春風社
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Interactional Competence and Practices in a Second Language2017

    • Place of Presentation
      Neuchatel, Switzerland
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2011-08-05   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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