著者
曲 志強
出版者
平安女学院大学
雑誌
平安女学院大学研究年報 (ISSN:1346227X)
巻号頁・発行日
no.16, pp.55-63, 2016-03-01

Since the entry of Japanese anime and manga into China in the 1980s, it has gained increasing influence as well as stable popularity in the Chinese mass culture, affecting generations of Chinese intheir cultural conception and even in their views on the world and life. Now, 35 years later, how does Japanese anime and manga, which continues to shine through all sorts of modern media, weigh among the Chinese? How is it understood and evaluated by the Chinese? The exploration of these questions is significant both theoretically and practically, in terms of both cultural and intercultural communication.Instead of adopting traditional questionnaire survey, this paper allows the subjects ample time forthoughts and expression, so that they could summarize systematically their understanding and evaluation of Japanese amine and manga. Based on a detailed analysis and summary of the survey results, this paper proposes its own ideas about how Chinese college students understand and evaluate Japanese anime and manga and how multiculturalism should be dealt with.
著者
金本 伊津子
出版者
平安女学院大学
雑誌
平安女学院大学研究年報 (ISSN:1346227X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.2, pp.47-54, 2002-03-10

This paper shows how female mediums such as itako and kamisama are taking a leading part in two religious practices, which have mainly spread through the Tsugaru and Shimokita regions of Aomori Prefecture. In hotoke-oroshi, the female mediums mediate the narratives of the dead and persuade local people of a shamanistic reality; for instance, the dead can interactively communicate with the living through the female mediums, often provide great influence on the lives of the living, and the dead get older year by year along with the living. As Japanese tradition shows in shinda ko no toshi wo kazoeru (counting the age of dead children), even fetuses, infants, and youths who die at an early age can often be kept growing, with the ability to attain marriageable age. Because the dead grow old in the minds of the living as the same pace as the living, it is no wonder the shamanistic messages sometimes convey the dead's strong psychological attachment to unfulfilled achievements in life, most of which are related to happy occasions in rites of passage, especially weddings. These shamanistic realities mediated by the narratives of the dead connect with local Buddhism to create another cultural device for the communication between the dead and the living-weddings of the dead. It is notable that Buddhist ritual in these religious events accepts the involvement of spiritual mediums such as itako and kamisama. Here we see a typical appositional synchronism of Japanese culture in the two different religious practices for the repose of the dead and the fulfillment of their lives in the world of the living. All ethnographic data were collected during fieldwork intermittently conducted by the author between 1991 and 2001.
著者
Slater Stephen Mickan Peter
出版者
平安女学院大学
雑誌
平安女学院大学研究年報 (ISSN:1346227X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.1, pp.165-183, 2001-03-10

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is one of the major 'gate-keeping' tests required for entry by students from overseas into universities in the UK, Australia. New Zealand and Canada. This paper reports on a qualitative investigation into the response validity of the IELTS writing subtest. The aim of the study was to identify factors in the assessment context which might influence candidates' achievement in writing their responses. The first part of the study looks at the readability of selected test prompts and identifies discourse and pragmatic features which may affect candidates' interpretation of the prompts. The second part of the investigation describes and analyses test taking behaviours of intending test candidates on the writing subtest. The analysis in this section is based on researchers' observation of subjects, on verbal protocols recorded as subjects wrote responses, and on post-test interview data recorded with the same subjects. The analysis for readability suggests that candidates' interpretation of the test prompts is influenced by factors such as the purpose described for the tasks and the lexico-grammar of the tasks. The analysis of the test-taking behaviours of subjects points to socio-cultural influences on candidates' demonstration of their writing ability. The investigation suggests the usefulness of qualitative procedures such as verbal protocols for exploring response validity, and has implications both for item writers and for teachers preparing candidates for IELTS examinations.