A Diachronic Comparative Study of Language Variation in Japan and Other Countries

日本と諸外国における言語変異の通時的比較研究

This dissertation presents research on language variation in Japan and other countries over a period of the last 200 and some years. “Other countries” refers to the Russian Federation and its predecessors, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Russian Empire. This thesis is a work of geolinguistic ethnography, an academic discipline that attempts to study ethnically based languages in the context of a geographic space and a specified historical time frame. The geographical coverage deals with the linguistic affairs of a small number of minority languages in Japan and Russia. The historical time frame goes from the Napoleonic Wars in Europe until the present. An attempt was made throughout the dissertation to take into account a time frame of approximately 200 years and attempts to do so in the context of the viewpoints of those exposed to these languages either through use or contact.

英語

32636甲第172号

博士(英語学)

2023-03-23

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