A Linguistic Analysis of Art Writings by Senior High School Students: On the Orientation Toward Experience Sharing through Demonstrative and “Taigendome”

Abstract

　　In this paper, we present the linguistic characteristics of art writings by senior high school students, mainly revealed through lexical and syntactic analysis, and examine its potential in art education. In particular, this paper focuses on 551 text data submitted to the 7th High School Art Writers Award, which was held in 2017, a contest on art writing, as the main object of study, and used morphological analysis tools to calculate quantitative data of linguistic forms that appeared in high school students’ texts, and took up actual examples of usage to conduct qualitative observation and analysis. The results indicated that the writing that was highly rated in the contest tended to be characterized by the use of demonstrative and “taigendome” (to use a noun at the end of a sentence), suggesting an orientation toward shared experience, which is caused by the effects of these expressive forms.