Abstract
In recent years, knowledge transfer has gained attention in our country for it is vital to preserve the skills of the experts. Skill is considered as tacit knowledge, and when the expert conveys his skill, he normally uses words as medium. Since words is one of the explicit knowledge, it is thought that linguistic expression may vary corresponding to the skill level. In this paper, by studying the relation between proximal term and distal term of tacit knowledge, and from the definition that tacit knowledge is a series of acts, we have concluded that the words used to express tacit knowledge would be better to include the movements of parts near human body. In order to verify the above, we have studied the changes in linguistic expressions corresponding to various skill levels of Aikido, a kind of Japanese traditional martial art.
