Presentation 2022-07-10
Port Town, Kobe and Old Traditional Town, Nikko
Yuko Hiramatsu,
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Abstract(in English) In the course of research of linguistic landscapes at a traditional town in Nikko, a comparative study with Kobe, a port town open to foreign countries has been carried out in our research. The names of the roads on the maps along the streets are particularly different between the two areas. Compared to Kobe, where names such as “○○Street”, “△△△ Suji” and “□□ Road” are used, the main street in Nikko from JR Nikko Station to Shinkyo Bridge is not specifically named in the map on the street. It used to be called officially a part of “Nikko Kaido” or is now part of “National Route 119”. However, the area is only a very small part of the long road. In addition, in Kobe, there are scattered references to "**dori(street)", which is not the name of the road but the name of the area. On the other hand, some Meiji-era publications refer to some streets as “**machi(area)” in Nikko. I will consider cultural differences in terms in this paper.
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Keyword(in English) proxemics / Linguistic landscape / Japanese Culture / Cross Cultural Context / Road
Paper # TL2022-8
Date of Issue 2022-07-03 (TL)

Conference Information
Committee TL
Conference Date 2022/7/10(1days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Online
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Theme 1:Metaverse, Narrative, Sharing and Manipulation of Presupposition, Theme 2:Interpretation, Translation, and Hospitality Communication, Theme 3:Linguistic Landscape, Language Contact, Learning Language, Abduction of Meaning
Chair Miwa Morishita(Kobe Gakuin Univ.)
Vice Chair Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.) / Akinori Takada(Ferris Univ.)
Secretary Yasushi Tsubota(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.) / Akinori Takada(Miidas)
Assistant Hiroaki Yamada(Tokyo Inst. of Tech) / Akio Shimogori(Hakodate-ct)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Thought and Language
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Port Town, Kobe and Old Traditional Town, Nikko
Sub Title (in English) Names of Roads and Areas
Keyword(1) proxemics
Keyword(2) Linguistic landscape
Keyword(3) Japanese Culture
Keyword(4) Cross Cultural Context
Keyword(5) Road
1st Author's Name Yuko Hiramatsu
1st Author's Affiliation Chuo University(Chuo Univ.)
Date 2022-07-10
Paper # TL2022-8
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) TL-103
Page pp.pp.41-45(TL),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2022-07-03 (TL)