Research on the rossibilities of political caricatures as learning and teaching materials of german idiomatic expressions

该项目第一年的主要目标是收集德国报纸、政治期刊和书籍中的政治漫画，这些漫画是根据惯用语绘制的。调查员主要从报纸《Badische Zeitung》收集政治漫画，该报以微电影的形式提供。作为项目第一年成果的一部分，调查者在参考文献中发表了一篇文章。项目第二年的研究重点放在调查和制作漫画的背景信息上，这些漫画都与德国统一有关。在具有生动形象和滑稽效果的漫画的具体政治、社会、经济和文化信息的基础上，学习者能够有效地理解和记忆习语的含义--这是研究者所希望的。作为项目第二年成果的一部分，调查者在参考文献中发表了两篇文章，分别为2.和3.在这个为期三年的项目的最后一年，调查者试图在他的学位论文中总结项目的结果，其中三个章节是在这个项目的结果的基础上构思和撰写的。这位研究者的论文可以概括为：政治漫画是很好的学习和教学材料，可以有效地学习习语，并为充分了解目标语言的文化提供了一个很好的途径。这项调查的目的也是为了对比研究日语和德语，不仅是语言，而且是两种文化。

The main aim in the first year of the project is set on the gathering of political caricatures from german newspapers, political journals and books, which are drawn on the basis of idiomatic expressions. The investigator gathered political caricatures mainly from the newspaper "Badische Zeitung", which is available in form of micro film. As part of results in the first year of the project, the investigator has published the article listed as 1. in the REFERENCES.The main accent of the research in the second year of the project ist layed on the investigating and working out the background informations of the caricatures, which are all concerned on the german unification. On the basis of the concrete political, social, economical and cultural informaions about the caricatures which has vivid image and comical effect, the leaner can understand and memorize the meaning of the idiomatic expressions effectively-so hopes the investigator. As parts of results of the second year of the project, the investigator has published two articles listed as 2. and 3. in the REFERENCE.In the last year of this three-year-project, the investigator has tried to incorperate the results of the project in his dissertational thesis, of which three capters are concepted and written on the basis of the results of this project. The thesis of the investigator, which he has gained as results of the project, can shortley be formulated as following : the political caricatures are good learning and teaching materials, by which idiomatic expressions are effectively learned, and which offer a good access to gain the fully understanding of the culture of the target language. This investigation has been also aimed as a contrastive study of Japanese and German, not only of language, but also of both cultures.