The Language War -the relationships between politics and the language culture

2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 14510539
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 英語・英米文学
• Research Institution: AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: NATSUME Hiroaki Aoyama Gakuin University, College of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (60172574)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAWAGUCHI Etsu Aoyama Gakuin University, College of Science and Engineering, Associate Professor, 理工学部, 助教授 (30306493) ; KITAGAWA Yoriko Aoyama Gakuin University, College of Economics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (60316883) ; KUZUMI Kazushi Aoyama Gakuin University, School of Business Adiministration, Professor, 経営学部, 教授 (50082730)
• Project Period (FY): 2002 – 2003
• Keywords: Ireland / Joyce / Yeats / Bowen

Research Abstract

The language is essential for the identity of race. In Ireland, Irish as mother tongue has been suppressed and English has become official language. Today we can say English is the mother tongue in Ireland. With this in mind, we examined the view on language and Irishness of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats and so on. It might be assumed that the cultural nationalism differs from the political nationalism especially on the view of Irish. The cultural nationalism thinks much of Irish, while the political nationalism does not think much of it. Moreover we have examined the issue of censorship in the time of war. E.Bowen as an Anglo-Irish writer is interesting for our project. Lastly we tried to apply discourse analysis to this theme.