著者
Toshihiko Narita
出版者
The Society of English Studies
雑誌
現代英米文化 (ISSN:24330728)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, pp.81-93, 1988-03-12 (Released:2017-09-07)

A comprehensive phonological description of a given language should be composed of a combination of numerous heterogeneous systems which accord with the complexity of the speech-continuum. Daniel Jones's kind of traditional phonemic approach to phonology, which grew out of the transcriptional requirement and completely and conveniently ignores phonological structure (i.e. grammar) and function (i.e. meaning), cannot take account of such complicated phenomena in language-utterance. In this article a detailed discussion of prosodic phonology-the first non-linear approach to phonology-will be used to demonstrate that considerations from other descriptive levels are highly relevant to the phonological description in the light of the complexity and the dynamic nature of the speech processing.
著者
Haruo Sato
出版者
The Society of English Studies
雑誌
現代英米文化 (ISSN:24330728)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, pp.134-144, 1988-03-12 (Released:2017-09-07)

The theoretical feasibility of text compression of a series of literary works by one author through non-bit-operation techniques by creating a macro-substitution dictionary and skeleton files is discussed. The objective of compression is to store multiple text files onto microcomputer storage devices. Compression techniques so far developed by other researcher are first reviewed and the efficiency of the macro-compression technique is examined.
著者
Kazuko Nishida
出版者
The Society of English Studies
雑誌
現代英米文化 (ISSN:24330728)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, pp.145-163, 1988-03-12 (Released:2017-09-07)

In many ways, mutual understanding across cultures is not easier than generally imagined, rather, it is more difficult in the present world since people are compelled, more or less, to have contact with many complicated events happening even in foreign countries. The author hopes that this paper could give an opportunity to people to think about the more concrete meaning of this important issue. For this purpose, the issue should be studied through the obsrvation of the reality of each different cultural situation, not through general theories in books or in mass media. human beings themselves are not simple entities. Therefore, the study of cultural issues needs much knowledge from various fields such as anthropology, psychology, linguistics, etc. As a matter of fact, this paper is written including the author's own past and present experiences both as a TESL student in the united States and as a TESL teacher in the two countries : the United States and Japan. The focus of the paper is on the Japanese children on the primary level living with their family in the United State, whose education is given both in the American school Monday through Friday and in the Japanese school on Saturday. In reality, the author, as a Japanese teacher, taught these children in a Japanese school in New York in 1969. Furthermore, recently, the author could attend a seminar sponsored by the society for the study of home-coming students in the private schools in Hyogo Prefecture on September 26, 1987. Indeed, it was interesting to hear many frank opinions from some students who attended the seminar.
著者
Yumi Ishii
出版者
The Society of English Studies
雑誌
現代英米文化 (ISSN:24330728)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, pp.164-171, 1988-03-12 (Released:2017-09-07)

Our daily communication is not consisted only of the language exchanged between the talkers. The tendency to rely only on the verbal language should be more strongly emphasized in the language classroom. Non-native speakers of any language are likely to rely more heavily on visual clues to support their comprehension than are native speakers. In teaching language as visual comprehension as well as the verbal one, the role of utilizing video is discussed as follows. In addition, in what way we should use the video programme is considered as well.
著者
James Godley
出版者
The Society of English Studies
雑誌
現代英米文化 (ISSN:24330728)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, pp.32-49, 1988-03-12 (Released:2017-09-07)

The nature of the human mind, its quest for the ideal, and the question whetehr or not there is something immortal in man were topics that Shelley pursued all his life. His stance concerning these questions shifted radically between his university days and the year of his death in 1822.