Notes of the Editors of the 1998 Fourth Edition
II. Summary of Publications
II.1. Regional and Social Varieties of Japanese
II.1.12. Basic Study on the Relation between Social Structure and Language
Volume 2. Conjugations I (Verb Forms)
Volume 3. Conjugations II (Verb and Adjective Forms) Volume 4. Modal and Expressive Words I
Volume 5. Modal and Expressive Words II Volume 6. Expressions III (Polite Expressions)
The following have contributed to the editing thus far. Researchers at the Institute: SATÔ Ryôiti, SAWAKI Motoei, KOBAYASI Takasi, SIRASAWA Hiroe, Willem A. GROOTAERS, ÔNISI Takuitirô, MITUI Harumi, INOUE Humiko, YOSIOKA Yasuo and YOSIDA Noriko.
Researchers outside the Institute: KATÔ Kazuo, SINOZAKI Kôiti, KAMEDA Hiromi, KONISI Izumi, HIDAKA Mizuho and UTIMA Tyokuzin.
II.1.12. Basic Study on the Relation between Social
Basic Study on the Relation between Social Structure and Language 3: Temperament Vocabulary and Outlook on Value 社会構造と言語の関係についての基礎的研究 ３ ―性向語彙 と価値観
Report 47, 1973. Shuei Shuppan（秀英出版） 107p ［Ｌ］
These reports summarize a part of the work from the cooperative study,
“Fundamental Research on the Relation between Social Structure and Language”, carried out between 1965 and 1973. They take the form of 3 volumes since this research was published in stages as sections of the survey were completed. The reports consist of the following 6, for the most part unrelated, papers.
Volume 1 (Report 32)
1. Basic Study of the Relation between the Social Structure of Dialectal Societies, and Language and Its System of Usage 2. Outline of the Change in the Agricultural Structure of Postwar
Dialectal Societies and the Change in the Consumption Structure of Farm Families
3. On the Relation between the System of Usage of Kinship Terms and Social Structure
Volume 2 (Report 35)
4. Common Dialectal Use and Technical Use of MAKI, MAKE 5. Case Study of Japanese Kinship Address/Reference Forms Volume 3 (Report 47)
6. Survey Research on the Relation between Value Judgements of Character and the Semantic System and Usage of Vocabulary Used to Describe Character
In addition, the following paper which summarizes a part of the research directed by WATANABE in this cooperative study, is
available. “The Vocabulary System of Adjectives and Kinship Terms in the Northern Hukusima Dialects” (Study of Language 3, 1967).
Due to the difficulty involved in giving a comprehensive description of the contents of each paper, the description here will be limited to one example. According to YANAGITA Kunio’s famous hypothesis, OYAKO is OYA TO KO. In contrast, in paper 4, WATANABE proposed the radical hypothesis that OYAKO is OYA DE ARU KO.
This research was directed by WATANABE Tomosuke.
II.1.13. Some Aspects of Honorific Expressions:
In Special Reference to Discourse
待遇表現の実態 ―松江24時間調査資料から
Report 41, 1971. Shuei Shuppan（秀英出版） 231p ［ＨＤＬ］
The purpose of this report is to show some of the results of an investigation into honorific expressions spoken in a local community in Japan. The present study is based on the materials obtained by a so- called “one-day investigation of verbal behavior” carried out in Matue (population about 110,000), the capital of Simane Prefecture in western Japan. The investigation was a part of the research project on “linguistic life”(this term covers various aspects of language use in daily life) in a local community conducted by the Institute in 1963.
Two points might be mentioned as the characteristics of the present study: first, the analysis of honorific expressions in the materials was consistently made from the point of view of discourse. Since every actual use of honorific expressions in the materials is always found in a discourse, many of the conditions relating to the selection of the elements of honorific expressions should be revealed by the analysis of discourse. In this study, all discourses in the materials were classified into several categories according to their functions in verbal communication (greetings, conversation for business, chatting etc.),
tone of speech (neutral, joking, ironical, complaining etc.) and topics (matters in daily life, business, gossip etc.). And every actual use of the honorific expressions including polite expressions, exalted expressions, demand expressions and personal names as well as pronouns was examined in each category of the discourse. For example, a definite difference among the morphemes used in exalted expressions was found in examining the discourses in which they appeared; RARE appeared, in most cases, in the discourses of gossip and was used for the third person 194 times out of a total of 201. On the other hand, NASAR mainly appeared in the discourses of topics related to daily life or business matters and was used for the addressee 54 times out of a total of 60.
Secondly, the computer system of the Institute was used for the processing of the materials. The Institute has been carrying out a large scale investigation into the vocabulary in newspapers since 1965, using the computer. However, the present study is the first attempt at the Institute in processing colloquial language materials. Lists of morphemes and words with their frequencies and other lists with contexts in KWOC form were made for further linguistic analysis.
Although cooperative relationships between the linguistic analysis and the processing by computer remain to be improved in many respects, the attempt will suggest some clues for the development of study in this field.
In this study, MINAMI Huzio was mainly in charge of linguistic analysis and MATUMOTO Akira in charge of processing of materials.