Comparative Research on Didactic Discourse and Literature in the Era of Enlightenment

这一研究项目的主要目的是回顾日本明治初期所谓启蒙时代的表达历史，特别是关于“文明”是如何概念化的，这个(这些)概念是如何被话语提出的，以及这些话语是否导致了日本近代头几十年的新的表达方式。在一个以说教为特征的时代，政府将民粹主义教育放在社会各个层面的优先位置，私营部门的媒体围绕着新的制度联合起来。我们的研究对象之一，在这里作为数据介绍，是东京和大阪各种媒体和政治机构出版的所谓小报上的民粹主义教育话语。我们关注的是《Eiri-Jiyu Shinbun》，这是年轻人和受教育程度较低的阶层中阅读人数最多的书籍之一。我们考察了从1882年到1886年出版的新闻专栏和连载小说，对所有用汉字书写并带有白话注解的术语进行了抽象和分析。在江户时代，用日本白话或俚语注释汉字变得流行起来，在现代的头几十年，这种方法被广泛用于通过阅读的行为来教授现代/西方概念和“文明”的词汇。

The main purpose of the current research project was to review the history of expression in the so-called Era of Enlightenment at the beginning of the Meiji period in Japan, especially in terms of how "civilization" was conceptualized, how this (these) conceptions were brought forward discursively, and whether these discourses resulted in new modes of expression in the first decades of Japan's modern age. In an era characterized by didacticism, the government prioritized populist educations at all levels of society, and private sector media coalesced around the new regime.One of the targets of our research, introduced as data here, was the discourse of populist education in the so-called "small-newspaper" tabloids published by various media and political ventures in Tokyo and Osaka. We focused on "Eiri-Jiyu Shinbun," one of the most widely read titles among the young and lesser-educated classes. Examining news columns and serialized fiction printed from 1882 through 1886, we proceeded to abstract and analyze all terms written in kanji script with vernacular glossing. Glossing kanji with vernacular or slang Japanese became popular in the Edo period, and in the first decades of the modern era, this method was broadly used to teach the vocabulary of modern/western concepts and "civilization" through the act of reading.