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Programme: accepted abstracts

Abstract ID: 920

Part of General Paper Session (Other abstracts in this session)

A comparison of real-time language changes in two Japanese koines

Authors: Asahi, Yoshiyuiki
Submitted by: Asahi, Yoshiyuiki (National Institute for Japanese Languagea and Linguistics, Japan)

This paper attempts to compare the real-time linguistic changes in two Japanese koines, i.e. Sapporo and Kushiro Japanese in a northern island of Hokkaido. It is said that Hokkaido Japanese was formulated as a regional koine in the course of history. Today, Hokkaido Japanese is divided into the two major dialect groups, inland dialect and coastal dialect. Each has its own sociolinguistic history. The differences in its history resulted in the creation of the regional differences in Hokkaido Japanese. It is intriguing to examine how regional koines in both inland and coastal dialects have formulated and how they develop different linguistic differences.
Fortunately enough, sociolinguistic studies have been conducted since 1950s mainly by NINJAL(National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) (NINJAL 1965, 1997, etc). Previous studies on Hokkaido Japanese have rendered its linguistic descriptions. What is more, real-time study was conducted by NINJAL in an inland city, Furano, in late 1980s (NINJAL 1997) .
This paper, based on the previous studies, should be posited as another attempt to conduct a comparative real-time study in Sapporo, as an example of inland dialect, and Kushiro, as an example of coastal dialect. Each locality was once studied by NINJAL (NINJAL 1997) and Yoneichi Ono (Asahi and Ozaki 2010). Real-time survey was designed and conducted in 2011 towards 100 residents in Sapporo and Kushiro through sociolinguistic interviews. The survey obtained a total number of 200 respondents from both cities. Questions, in this survey, focused on lexicon, phonology/phonetics, accentuation patterns, and greeting expressions. The same questionnaire was used in both localities.
This paper will report the findings from the two survey results, primarily on lexical items, and will consider the directions of the real-time linguistic change through comparisons between Hokkaido and Kushiro Japanese.
Refererences:
NINJAL (1965) Kyotsugoka no katei: Hokkaido ni okeru oyako sandai no kotoba (Process of Common Japanisation: language of three family generations in Hokkaido). Tokyo: Shuei Shuppan
NINJAL (1997) Hokkaido ni okeru kyotsugoka to gengoseikatsu no jittai: chukan hokoku (Dynamics of Common Japanisation and Gengoseikatsu in Hokkaido: Interim report). Tokyo: NINJAL
Asahi, Yoshiyuki and Ozaki, Yoshimitsu (2010) Hokkaido Kushiro-shi ni okeru gengohenka: ‘kushiro gengo chosa’ no kekka kara. (Language change in a city of Kushiro, Hokkaido: a case from ‘Language survey in Kushiro). A paper presented at 191th meeting of Hokkaido Dialectological Circle, November 2010.