Structural Study of Japanese Linguisic Traditions

本研究旨在运用结构语言学和结构人类学的方法和概念，结合方言学和文化人类学的研究成果，重新审视日本的语言传统，将结构语言学和结构人类学的研究方法和概念应用到冈山县片田町方言区的方言和迷信中。这种情况被认为是旧方言向具有相同结构的新方言的转变。Itabashi，S.收集了Kajinami和Okayama县的各种民间传说，发现某种迷信的一些成分词被替换为其他词，但其结构是持久的。我们认为，方言和迷信等语言传统代代相传，地方不同，但结构不变。

The aim of our study is to reconsider Japanese linguistic traditions, in collaboration of dialectology and culturarl anthropology, by applying the methods and concepts which developped is so-called structural linguistics and structural anthropology to the dialect and superstitions in Kajinami District of Katsuta-cho, Okayama Prefecture.Nikaido, H.analyzed the data collected in Kajinami District by comparison between dialects of old and young generations and between dialects in Kajinami and in other places of Okayama Prefecture, and found out the cases that old dialects sometimes replaced with new dialects, not Standard words. It is thought that such cases indicate the transformation of old dialects to new dialects with a same structure.Itabashi, S.collected various folk biliefs of Kajinami and Okayama Prefecture and found the fact that some component words of a certain superstition are commuted to other words, but its strucure is persisted.We think that such linguistic traditions as dialects and superstitons change from generation to generation and from place to place, but the structre does not change.