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An Introduction to the National Language Research Institute : a Sketch of Its Achievements Fourth Edition View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE 国立国語研究所学術情報リポジトリ An introduction to The National Language Research Institute : A sketch of its achievements fourth edition 発行年月日 1999 URL http://doi.org/10.15084/00001584 PDF Edition (Ver.1.10) of the Fourth Edition A Publication for the Fiftieth Anniversary AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE A Sketch of Its Achievements Fourth Edition 1998 The National Language Research Institute AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE A Sketch of Its Achievements Fourth Edition 1998 The National Language Research Institute An Introduction to the National Language Research Institute Copyright 1966, 1971, 1988, 1997, 1998, 1999 by The National Language Research Institute All rights reserved. First Edition (April, 1966) Second Edition (August, 1971) Third Edition (December, 1988) HTML Edition of the Third Edition (September, 1997) PDF Edition (Ver. 1.0) of the Fourth Edition, Second Draft (December , 1998) PDF Edition (Ver. 1.01) of the Fourth Edition, Second Draft (January 2, 1999) PDF Edition (Ver. 1.02) of the Fourth Edition, Second Draft (January 4, 1999) Fourth Edition, 1st print (March, 1999) PDF Edition (Ver.1.10) of the Fourth Edition, (May 9, 1999) The National Language Research Institute 3-9-14 Nisigaoka, Kita-ku, Tokyo 115-8620 JAPAN Printed in JAPAN Illustrations The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. They are listed below. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. Numbers in [ ] indicate pages in this volume. 1. The Main Building of the Institute 2. The Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (From the Institute’s founding through september 1954, the Institute was housed in the building.) 3. Former Building in Hitotubasi (from October 1954 to March 1962) 4. Former Building in Nisigaoka (from April 1962 to November 1976) 5. Present Building in Nisigaoka (from December 1976) 6. X-ray Film Data of Vowel Sounds [pages 76, 77] 7. A Map from the Linguistic Atlas of Japan [page 25] 8. A Map from the Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects [page 28] 9. A Concordance Card Used in the Study “Ninety Magazines of Today” [page 99] 10. KWIC (Key Word in Context) — from the Concordance of Vocabulary with Contexts [page 114] 11. Publication in Various Media — Printing [page 112], Microfiche [page 114], Diskette [118] 12. Electronic Publishing (Diskettes and CD-ROM) — Language Processing Data Source 5 [page 66], 6 [page 118], 7 [page 100], Data Source for Editing Japanese Dictionary [page 82] 13. One Frame from a Film — Video Film Materials for the Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language [pages 172 ~ 185] 14. The National Language Research Institute International Symposium [page 212] The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. The illustrations appearing in pp. iii-xii in the printing version of this fourth edition are not available in this PDF version 1.10. The illustrations will be available in the revised version. xiii Contents Preface to the Fourth Edition....................................................................... xxi Notes of the Editors .................................................................................... xxii I. Outline of the National Language Research Institute .............. 1 1. Objective................................................................................................ 1 2. Reason for Establishment...................................................................... 1 3. Outline of Research Activities............................................................... 1 4. Buildings and Expenditures................................................................... 2 5. Organization .......................................................................................... 3 6. Library ................................................................................................... 5 II. Summary of Publications................................................................. 7 II.1. Regional and Social Varieties of Japanese ......................................... 9 II.1.1. The Linguistic Survey at the Island of Hatizyô ............................ 10 II.1.2. Language Survey in Sirakawa City and Neighboring Villages .... 11 II.1.3. Language Survey in Turuoka City, Yamagata Pref...................... 13 II.1.4. A Descriptive Study of the Turuoka Dialect: The Third Language Survey in Turuoka City, the 1st Report ........................................ 15 II.1.5. Socio-Psychological Survey on Japanese Polite Expression........ 17 II.1.6. Descriptive Studies of Japanese Dialects...................................... 21 II.1.7. A Dictionary of the Ryukyuan Language..................................... 22 II.1.8. Towards the Uniformization of Standard Language Use: A Survey of Three Generations in Hokkaidô................................................ 23 xiv Contents II.1.9. Linguistic Atlas of Japan ............................................................. 25 II.1.10. Index to the Dialect Forms of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan ...... 27 II.1.11. Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects ......................................... 28 II.1.12. Basic Study on the Relation between Social Structure and Language ....................................................................................... 31 II.1.13. Some Aspects of Honorific Expressions: In Special Reference to Discourse ....................................................................................... 33 II.1.14. Changes of Language Use: From the Field-work Data in the Northern Part of Fukusima Prefecture........................................... 34 II.1.15. Linguistic Sociological Study on the Kinship Vocabulary of Japanese Dialects 1........................................................................ 35 II.1.16. A Compilation of Kinship Terms of Japanese Dialects.............. 36 II.1.17. Sociolinguistic Survey in Tokyo and Osaka............................... 38 II.1.18. A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Honorific Expressions in Japanese Private Enterprises ......................................................... 40 II.1.19. A Contrastive Study of Japanese and German Linguistic Behaviour ..................................................................................... 42 II.1.20. Diversity in Dialects: An Inquiry into the Reliability of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan............................................................... 44 II.1.21. Social Changes and Standards of Honorific Behaviour in Japan.............................................................................................. 46 II.1.22. Aspects of Text and Context: An Analysis of Conversational Texts ............................................................................................. 47 II.1.23. Querying Dialect Survey Methods ............................................. 48 II.1.24. Texts of Tape-Recorded Conversations in Japanese Dialects .... 50 II.1.25. Socio-Linguistic Survey on Communication Situations............. 53 II.2. Structure and System of Modern Japanese ..................................... 55 II.2.1. Bound Forms (‘Zyosi’ and ‘Zyodôsi’) in Modern Japanese: Uses and Examples ................................................................................ 56 II.2.2. Collection of ‘Okurigana Rules’................................................... 57 II.2.3. Research in the Colloquial Japanese............................................. 57 II.2.4. A Research for Making Sentence Patterns in Colloquial Japanese 1: On Materials in Conversation......................................................... 59 II.2.5. Research of Sentence Patterns in Colloquial Japanese 2: On Materials in Speech .................................................................. 60 xv II.2.6. Japanese Homonymy and Its Problems ........................................ 61 II.2.7. Research on Letter Styles in Horizontal Printing of Japanese Texts ..................................................................................................... 62 II.2.8. Word List by Semantic Principles ................................................ 65 II.2.9.
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