2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The transformation of the social structure in the Amami Islands dialect and the study of the transformation process of the manners and customs vocabulary

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520398
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	Hiroshima University
Principal Investigator	MACHI Hiromitsu Hiroshima University, 大学院・教育学研究科, 教授 (10116668)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	方言 / 共通語 / 奄美諸島 / 与論島方言 / 習俗語彙 / 社会構造 / 年祝い
Research Abstract	It participated in some traditional events in the Amami Islands dialect rapidly transformed. The event was able to be collected to the video for about two hours. The dialect can be observed whether to make this a character, by what scene for a so-called standard dialect to be used actually, and by what scene to be used. In the scene such as the greeting of opening a meeting, the guest's greeting, and the chairperson progress, most is so-called standard dialects. On the other hand, the dialect is used as for a personal calling and the talk. The function of the dialect in Amami Islands was able to be brought into relief.