2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cultural Studies on "Otherness" Represented in the Non-Standard English Usage in the 18th-Century Drama
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22520224
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
IWATA Miki 東北大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (50361051)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | アイルランド文学 / 演劇研究 / 比較文化 / 英語史 / 方言研究 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research project, I dealt with the eighteenth-century English drama, especially characters speaking non-standard English, in order to investigate how the dramatic language usage in the plays written for the London audience foregrounded "otherness". The standardisation of English, by setting up a binary opposition of the central/the marginal, inevitably went hand in hand with the alienation of non-standard English speakers including the Scottish, the Irish and the West indians, and theatre functioned as a centre stage for that process.
Moreover, this research took one step further to explore this discriminating system and revealed that the actual conditions were far more complicated than that. For example, not a few Irish playwrights self-humiliatingly pandered to the trend. On the other hand, from the viewpoint of comparative studies, I suggest that Hiberno-English as the counter culture can be a model to cope with the Japanese language discrimination.
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