著者

福間 良明

出版者

学術雑誌目次速報データベース由来

雑誌

ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, no.1, pp.37-54, 2001

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This paper examines the process of the construction of the 'Peripheries' and Nationality through the text of Misao Tojyo and Motoki Tokieda.<br> Misao Tojyo was the scholar whose major was dialectology. Motoki Tokieda was the scholar of Japanese linguistics and the professor of Keijyo Imperial University in Korea before the end of the occupation of the peninsula by Japan. In their thought, it was not necessary that dialects and Korean language were definitely the Other of Japanese language. Such languages were something that made the definition or boundary of Japan/Japanese ambiguous and were going to break them. But, for that reason, Japan/Japanese was reconstructed as something that could govern the Peripheries such as dialects/the regional or Korean and the Peripheries had to be both included and excluded by Japan/Japanese.<br> On the other hand, 'the Occident (language) ' was represented as the Other - what was definitely different from Japan/Japanese - by Tojyo and Tokieda. Though Japan was threatened by the Occident in a political sense, the definition of Japan might be made more and more clear and natural in a cultural sense.<br> In the argument of Japanese linguistics before the end of the World War II (and also after it), especially in those of Misao Tojyo and Motoki Tokieda, Japan was recognized on the one hand as what was approved and made particular by the Occident that was recognized as something universal and general, and the other, it was recognized as what was universal and general by the Peripheries, so the nationalism of Japan could go across the boundary of it and be applied to the Peripheries.