Special Issue: Cross-cutting Researches in Japanese Linguistics
Cross-disciplinary Research in Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Education
2018 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 68-83
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2018 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 68-83
The descriptive study of Japanese grammar, which was developed to meet the needs of Japanese language education in the 1980s and 1990s, is said to have lost sight of its original aim and have undergone a long slump from around the millennium (Noda (2001) and others). In this paper I discuss the necessity to create and solve new research questions with the Japanese language learner's point of view in mind in order to energize the descriptive research of Japanese grammar.
Specifically, I propose three descriptive approaches to realize the cross-disciplinary research in Japanese linguistics and Japanese language education: i) pragmatics (the study of context), ii)contrastive analysis of Japanese and other languages, and iii)research on grammatical forms with similar meanings. Based on an examination of previous descriptive research using these three approach- es, I will discuss significant results and possible applications of this research to Japanese language education.
