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、政治杂志和书籍中的政治漫画，这些漫画是在习惯表达的基础上绘制的。调查人员主要从报纸“Badische Zeitung”收集政治漫画，该报纸以微电影的形式提供。作为项目第一年成果的一部分，研究者发表了如下1所列的文章。见参考资料。项目第二年的主要研究重点是调查和整理漫画的背景资料，这些漫画都是关于德国统一的。漫画形象生动，具有喜剧效果，学习者可以根据漫画中具体的政治、社会、经济和文化信息，有效地理解和记忆习语表达的意思，这也是研究者所希望的。作为该项目第二年成果的一部分，研究者发表了2篇文章。和3。在参考文献中。在这个为期三年的项目的最后一年，研究者试图将项目的结果纳入他的学位论文中，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。研究者在这个项目中得出的结论可以简单概括为：政治漫画是很好的学习和教学材料，通过它可以有效地学习习语表达，并为充分了解目的语文化提供了一个很好的途径。这项调查也旨在作为日语和德语的对比研究，不仅在语言上，而且在两种文化上。

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.