2010 年 6 巻 p. 79-88
"The person concerned" is said to be the people who were linked to the event (person) or people, who are seen in that way from outsiders. However, I would like to point out that it is possible to divide them into two types: "the person concerned," who is central and who is marginal. To add to this understanding in the field of Orality, the relationship of being the person concerned and the person non-concerned are not opposed to each other. I would rather say that it is something graduational, accompanied by a feeling of empathy generated in the process of the relationship between the "listener and narrator" in the process of the narratives. That is to say, I think that in the case of both the narrator and the listener or either one of them are able to feel the empathy from the character of "the person concerned," providing rich content, and in the other case that of the non-concerned as well.