Categorization of "Family" in Cultures of English and Japanese, and Its Meaning in Societies
| Project/Area Number |
25370554
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokushima |
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Principal Investigator |
Yamada Hitoko 徳島大学, 大学院ソシオ・アーツ・アンド・サイエンス研究部, 准教授 (00200733)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Keywords | カテゴリー化 / 家族 / 社会 / 英語圏 / 日本語圏 / 父親 / 英語 / 日本語 / 概念 / 認知語用論 / コーパス |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project has clarified the ways to construct the concepts concerning "family" in different cultures of English-speaking and Japanese-speaking societies. The linguistic data collected from the corpora, WordBanksOnline, BNC (The British National Corpus) and BCCWJ (Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese) has indicated that these two languages, English and Japanese, use the same procedure of categorization for family-related words, in which two kinds of features work to form categories, the ideal feature of the category members, and the necessary feature to be a member of the category. However, the data also has shown that Japanese allows fewer characteristics for these features. This fact indicates that Japanese society is more rigid and stereotypical about families than English-speaking society.
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