Latest Trends in Nationwide Language Consciousness of Regional Dialects and Common Language Usage in Japan: Analysis of a 2015 Web Survey of 10,000 Participants
アイテムタイプ
紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper
言語
日本語
キーワード
言語意識, 方言, 共通語, Web調査, 地域類型
キーワード(英)
language consciousness, regional dialect, common language, web survey, regional typology
This paper is based on a web survey conducted in August 2015. The data was collected from over ten thousand people above the age of twenty living in Japan. This paper summarizes the results of this survey, emphasizing on the most recent consciousness of regional dialects and common language usage, and proposes a regional grouping based on the analysis of the data.
The "regional dialects and common language consciousness" part of the survey included six questions: "Do you think your hometown has a dialect?" "Do you like the dialect of your hometown?" "Do you like the common language?" "Do you use both a regional dialect as well as the common language in daily life?" "What is the proportion of use of common language in your daily life, in relation to your native dialect?" "How often do you use your native dialect when speaking with someone in your family/from the same region/from elsewhere?" The results were analyzed by focusing on the subjects' birthplace, age, and whether or not they lived in the region of their birth. The answers to the aforementioned six questions were hence grouped into seven types based on 12 regions: (1) Tokyo metropolitan area and Hokkaido; (2) northeastern Japan or the Tohoku region; (3) northern Kanto, Koshin'etsu, and Tokai (both subregions of central Japan); (4) Kinki, Chugoku; (5) Kyushu; (6) Hokuriku, Shikoku; (7) Okinawa. A more detailed regional classification of the results in nine groups is as follows: (1) Tokyo metropolitan area and Hokkaido; (2) northeastern Japan or the Tohoku region; (3) northern Kanto; (4) Koshin'etsu; (5) Tokai; (6) Kinki and Chugoku; (7) Kyushu; (8) Hokuriku and Shikoku; (9) Okinawa.
1万人調査からみた最新の方言・共通語意識 : 「2015年全国方言意識Web調査」の報告
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