Potentiality of "Regional Language"

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  • 『地域言語』の潜在的可能性
  • 『 チイキ ゲンゴ 』 ノ センザイテキ カノウセイ

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In consequence of the postwar` dialect eradication campaign,'the standardization of Japanese languagewas promoted nationwide and the linguistic regional specificities have been excluded. Out of the regret, anactivity to preserve the regional dialect was cranked-up in Okinawa. The question –" Who are we" was thecore concept of the activity. By contrast, the people in Kansai area who are proud of their linguistic regionalspecificities have been demonstrated their own way of thinking and minds. They have been contributed tothe postwar society by spiritedly sending out the message to all part of the country. Taking the both caseshappened in Okinawa and Kansai into consideration, we can find that the answer to the question" Who arewe" is the` way of thinking and mind" which is pulsating in every regional dialects. The` way of thinkingand mind' will be activated by using their own regional dialect by the local people. Then, The questionnow is how we should handle it. We should recommend the continuous practices of the use of the locallanguage in not only the private but also the public situations. That will activate the way of thinking andmind by those activities, and it will make it possible that people can have their own regional specific wayof thinking. The decentralized society we are looking for is creating the new brilliant era of the diversity inregional dialects to deliver the variety of unique way of thinking and mind in every region to whole part ofthe nation.

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