著者

長岡 壽男

出版者

大阪青山大学『大阪青山大学紀要』編集委員会

雑誌

大阪青山大学紀要 (ISSN:18833543)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.67-83, 2012

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The number of professional baseball fans in Japan has greatly increased by the following three reasons: 1)Japanese professional baseball teams have recently become quite strong and competitive internationally; 2) uniquely Japanese baseball culture has permeated throughout Japan; and 3) each professional baseball team has its own homebaseball stadium where the players receive enthusiastic support from their fans in the stand. These reasons worked synergistically to give rise to vigorous and loud yelling from the stand in every ball game. Local fan's yelling necessarily reflects each local dialect. In the present paper, the author attempted to collect and survey yelling words spoken in Osaka dialects by spectators in the stand of baseball stadiums in Kansai areas. These yells were categorized according to the purpose of yelling, and their words were evaluated to demonstrate how effectively those dialectal expressions were utilized. Yelling in baseball games plays an important role to enkindle the atmosphere of a baseball game. On the other hand, there is also a problem of inappropriateness arising from careless usage of unsuitable expressions in a yell.Inappropriate yells should be minimized to keep other fellow-fans' ball game watching pleasant.