著者

黒田 一平

出版者

京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科言語科学講座

雑誌

言語科学論集 = Papers in linguistic science

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.1-25, 2013-12

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This study provides a new approach to grammatology from the viewpoint of cognitive linguistics. In western linguistics, written language has been researched less extensively than spoken language because the former has been regarded as a simple reflection of the latter. However, there are many linguistic phenomena which cannot explain without referring to letters, especially in Japanese which utilizes four writing system: Chinese character (kanji), two Japanese characters (hiragana and katakana) and Latin alphabet. Such writing systems should be taken into consideration in analyzing phenomena I handle in this paper: abbreviated forms of Chinese characters, a part of abbreviation words, young people's languages and a technique in traditional Japanese poems (waka). Previous studies have only described and analyzed these phenomena individually, not in a systematic and unified way. Therefore, in order to capture them holistically, I propose a network model by adding a space for letters (graphemes) to phonological and semantic poles of conventional cognitive models (e.g. Langacker (1987), Bybee (1985)). Then, I illustrate how effectively this model can treat issues of writing as above. This approach provides cognitive linguistics with higher affinity with other fields of cognitive science such as psychology and neuroscience in analysing language change and variety concerning writing, because they usually distinct written language from spoken language as subject of research.