著者

森 由起 境 泉洋 山本 真由美 佐野 勝徳

出版者

徳島大学

雑誌

徳島大学総合科学部人間科学研究 (ISSN:09199810)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, pp.69-79, 2007

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The purpose of this study is to understand in a practical sense the etiologicalbackground of social withdrawal and to find some clues on how to present itsoccurrence. We hypothesized that a lack of group experience and/or the disturbance ofthe daily rhythm including the sleep'wakefulness cycle at an early age might beinfluential factors for social withdrawal.To examine this hypothesis,we designed a questionnaire containing items aboutthe clients' experiences in nursery schools and kindergarten,the clients' bedtimes,wake times, playing hours, helping at home and other activities during theirelementary and junior-high school years and at the point of this survey. Forty-onesocial withdrawals with an average age of 27,85 and 172 students were participating inthis survey.In case of those 41 social withdrawals,their mean age of showing for the first timesymptoms of social withdrawing is 19.25土4.72.About half of the clients are the oldestchild in their family. The ratio of persons with group experience in nursery school wassignificantly lower in the social withdrawal group (χ2(1)ニ9.400,pく.05). The ratio ofpersons with group experience in nursery school from an early age(below age 3) and inkindergarten also tends to be lower in the social withdrawal group,although notsignificantly.As to the sleep-wakefulness cycle,the social withdrawal group tends to go to bedearlier and to rise later than the participants of the control group when they were inthe middle grades of elementary school and the second grade of junior high school,although again not significantly. On the other hand,at the point of this survey thesocial withdrawal group gets up significantly later than the controls.The ratio of persons who had breakfast every day when they were attending juniorhigh-school was lower among the withdrawals than the controls. The socialwithdrawals were playing less and hardly helped at home when they were in themiddle grades of elementary school and the second grade of junior high-school.These results were discussed in relation with the findings of our previous studyand others.

著者

山内 暁彦

出版者

徳島大学

雑誌

言語文化研究 (ISSN:13405632)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.1-33, 2003-02

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There are many mysteries in the details of Gulliver's Travels. It seems that the description of the stage on which Gulliver let the Liliputian horses exercise is erroneous concerning its structure and size. But if we make thorough consideration, we can find out that Swift's description is rather correct. To make the stage we should put the sticks in the ground and make them slant a little, though this is not indicated clearly by the author. Also we can make use of the mysterious ninth stick at the centre of the whole structure as a support of the handkerchief. Though the stage can actually be built from Gulliver's handkerchief and thirteen sticks, it is still impossible to let the troop of twenty-four horses manuever on it when we adhere to the scale of 1 to 12. The field is too small for the cavalry. We need to interpret the latter half of the episode differently by means of a sur-realistic method. The episode resembles a Japanese rakugo-story, called 'Atama-Yama,' which means 'Head Hill.' In this fantastic story a man grows a cherry tree on his head and bewilderingly it is on his head too that many people gather to see the blossoms. The man's head and the crowd in 'Atama-Yama' correspond to the handkerchief and the horses in Gulliver's Travels. Behind the episode of the exercise on the handkerchief we can discover many points of significance. For example, the handkerchief probably means the Union Jack which represents the Union of England and Scotland accomplished by Queen Anne in 1707. We may assume that, as is demonstrated in this episode, there are numerous possible interpretations of many details in Gulliver's Travels.

著者

飯田 操

出版者

徳島大学

雑誌

徳島大學學藝紀要. 人文科學 (ISSN:04957601)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.32, pp.1-13, 1982