| 概要 |
Language is not only a guide to social reality, but also a symbol of the culture of a nation. It is natural that we would not think much of an expert on American culture who controlled no English. In ...this sense, the matter of cultural interpretation through language, that is, "language-culture" will be all the more important. Generally speaking, in a country where its culture is disrupted with the lack of confidence between young and old, the use of its language is inevitably confused. More than that, the result of the confused and divided culture will be one of the causes of unsettled problems; for example, the alienation of the young, the danger of repression or a police state. A cruel and unnecessary war also will pour violence into a society. This is unfortunately true with the past Japan as well as the present United States. It is clear, however, that America is experiencing a crisis of the spirit. Americans have become more painfully conscious of what pulls them apart than what holds them together. On the contrary, the Japanese people, especially some of the college young, are playing with words while they are unconcious of what self-centered words-communication brings. As a result, these kids are already degenerating into bloody lawlessness. Last summer, 1971, we had a notorious word, the Nixon-shock. This kind of newly-coined word might be said to be a symbol of the economic and spiritual surprise and confusion on the part of the Japanese. They seem to be more sensitive towards the foreign pressure than the American people. Needless to say, President Nixon and his agents were forced to take a drastic defensiveness in an effort to protect American dollar. Nevertheless, most Japanese were shocked. In Feburary, 1972, the "United Red Army," one of the most militant radical student sects in Japan, killed their some twenty comrades mainly because of their followers'trifle behavior and the so-called anti-revolution words, it is said. The killing officers tried to cover their murder by calling'Summing Up'(Sokatsu in Japanese), but in vain. Language itself will not be the main cause of murder-lynch, but their'Sokatsu'became its cause. It was in playing with words that these kids degenerated into massacre.続きを見る
|
Mendeley出力
