JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN MICRONESIA

1项目组在塞班岛、帕劳、波恩佩、库赛伊、雅普和丘克与各州历史保护办公室和老年人之家的合作下进行了研究。另一方面，我们的团队调查了关岛大学、夏威夷大学和澳大利亚国立大学关于这一主题的参考书目。这些大学的图书馆比日本的图书馆拥有更多的书目和书面资料。“公立学校”的学生通过日本人讲授的课程学习日语，并对他们的方言进行翻译。这种教学风格并没有帮助他们有效地习得语言。他们在与日本酋长和其他岛国的人合作时获得了日语，除了在帕劳州科罗尔学习的人外，其他岛屿的人的语言与他们的母语不同。他们在与其他岛屿的人口头交流时使用日语，并用片假名书写日语和他们的母语。此外，日语经常作为同一代语言发挥作用。日语中存在着简化现象。根据当地语言的不同，有各种类型的简化。如雅帕斯语日语中使用最多的是“dekiru”，戈丹语中使用最多的是“reru”。至于借词，白话语的语音系统在接受其语言中的词时起着过滤器的作用。考虑到外来词在帕劳语中的语义场，评价表达也接受了日语的思维风格。3个团队成员各自发表了他们的文章。我们还计划在《大阪大学文学院公报》第38卷上发表一篇《报告》。另一家出版物也在筹划中。

1 The Project Team has conducted the research at Saipan, Palau, Pohnpei, Kusaie, Yap and Chuuk with cooperation of Historic Preservation Office of each State and Houses of Senior Citizens. On the other hand our team has investigated the bibliography on this subject at the University of Guam, the University of Hawaii and the Australian National University. Libraries of these universities hold more bibliography and written materials than those in Japan.Pupils of "Kogakko (Public School)" learned Japanese language through classes taught by Japanese with interpretation to their vernacular languages. This teaching style did not contribute their effective acquisition of the language. They acquired Japanese as they worked with Japanese chiefs and people from other islands whose languages are different from their own except people studied at Koror, Palau.2 Senior people in Micronesia still remains their ability of Japanese Language in quite good state. They use Japanese when communicating with people from other island orally and in Katakana writing of both Japanese and their mother languages. Besides, Japanese often functions as fellow language of the same generation.Simplification is found in their Japanese. There are various type of simplification depending on their vernacular languages. For example "dekiru" is used most in Yapese Japanese and "reru" is attatched to godan verbs.As for borrow words vernacular languages phonological system functions as filter in accepting the words in their languages. Considering semantic field of the borrow words in Palauan evaluation expressions thinkng styles of Japanese are also accepted.3 Team members are publishing their articles individually. Also we have a plan of publishing a "Report" in "the Bulletin of Faculty of Letters, Osaka University" Vol.38. Another publication are also planning.