Japanese Language as a Bond:Language-Life Study for Japanese Community,Nikkei Community and Japanese -speaking peoples Community

本研究试图探寻其作为媒介的语言的社区性特征。从这个意义上说，在我们开始调查之前，研究主要集中在语言的功能方面。然而，通过研究，我们发现了键的一些功能远远超出了我们的想象。象征性作为每一种语言共有的功能之一，在每个社区都有很强的表现。即使在一个有一些不熟悉日语的人的社会里，也建立了本土化的语言文化，同时也识别了一个社会中本土化的语言文化和非本土化的文化并存的情况。日语的功能纽带一方面是通过局部化和变化性的现象实现的，另一方面也为日本研究提供了另类范式的基本条件。

This research tried to seek for the characteristic of its community-ness of the language as a medium. In this sense, the research focused on the functional aspect of the language before we began the investigation. However, through the research, we found some functions of the bond much more than we imagined. Symbolic-ness, every language shares as one of the functions, is strongly performing in every community. Even the society in which there are some unfamiliar members with Japanese, nonetheless, localized language culture is established there.At the same time, the co-existing situation in which localized language culture and not localized culture in a society is identified. The functional bond of Japanese is realized by a localized and mutable phenomenon on the one hand and an immutable phenomenon on the other hand It also propounds the fundamental condition for establishing an alternative paradigm for Japan studies.