Reconstruction of English Studies through Stylistic Theories

本研究旨在阐明英语的语言和文学研究融入文体学的过程，同时重构高度专业化的英语研究，从而失去了对英语语言的关注。1999年，也就是我们研究的第一年，我们提出了一个假设，即当R.Fowler和其他具有相同信念的语言学家从文学研究中寻找语言与文学解体的解决方案时，我们提出了语言文学整合的假设，并开始收集相关材料来支持这一假设。在分工上，罗西特负责诗学，西村和筑井认知语言学，斋藤小说研究和整个项目的监督。在2000年和2001年，我们继续一边收集资料，一边研究，几乎验证了上述假设。2002年，也就是我们研究的最后一个学年，我们整理了所有的材料和研究结果，并计划以宣言的形式提出关于英语语言文学研究的新方法的最终报告。今年下半年，齐藤和罗西特在讨论如何将我们的语言-文学整合研究应用于英语教育以及如何将结果具体化方面发挥了核心作用。因此，在其他不同专业的英语教师的帮助下，我们制定了一种实现整合原则的新的教学方法。其结果将作为教材出版(东京大学出版社，2003年6月即将出版)。

This research started as an attempt to elucidate the process of linguistic and literary studies of English being integrated into stylistics, and at the same time, to reconstruct English studies, which have been highly specialized into many separate disciplines and thereby lost the central concern for the English language.In 1999, which was the first year of our research, we put forth an assumption that the language-literature integration started when R. Fowler and other linguists of the same persuasion looked to literary studies for a solution to the disintegration between language and literature, and began collecting relevant materials to support the assumption. As regards the division of labor Rossiter took charge of poetics, Nishimura and Tsuboi cognitive linguistics, and Saito fiction study and the supervision of the whole project. In 2000 and 2001, we continued to collect materials and examine them at the same time, and almost verified the abovementioned assumption.In 2002, which is the final academic year of our research, we put all the materials and research results in order, and planned to produce the final report in the form of a manifesto concerning new ways of studying the English language and literature. In the latter half of the year, Saito and Rossiter played a central part in discussing ways of applying our research into language-literature integration to English education as well as ways of giving a concrete shape to the result. As a result, with the help of other English teachers of different specialization, we mapped out a new teaching methodology for realizing the integrating principle. The result is going to be produced as a textbook Teaching and Learning English (The University of Tokyo Press, forthcoming in June, 2003).