大学生による古典落語の言葉の理解

抄録

Rakugo which is the art of Classical Comic Story has formed at the time from the middle of Edo and during the Meiji periods, and subsequently, colorfully reflects mostly the social background typical to that epoch. Therefore, nowadays it is hard to say that its amusement is conveyed to everyone. Due to the diversification of entertainment and some other reasons, Rakugo is now considered to be a sort of an ancient art hardly familiar, especially to the younger age groups. In this research, I decided to analyze the lexical aspect of Rakugo a factor in its obscurity to the common people. Having taken Rakugo as the object of the research, I go forward with the inquiry of lexical units, concerned difficulty by the young, and try to analyze some common tendency, basing upon the acquired results.