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- W2497053112 abstract "This essay deals with what we could call ‘the adequacy of a writing system to the society it serves’. It is intended to be a sociolinguistic approach to writing, which is, however, seldom tackled by modern linguists. In other words, the question can be reformulated as: ‘How does the mixed logophonographic kanji-kana majiri writing system presently used in Japan work in modern Japanese society? And, above all, does it fulfil its task or is it too cumbersome, causing difficulty in learning and manipulation? Or, on the contrary, is it too poor, causing inadequacy and ambiguity?’ Summary 1. An Outline of the Problem. – 2. Japanese Writing System in Modern Society. – 3. A Different Approach to Japanese Writing System. – 4. Concluding Remarks. – Appendix. 1 An Outline of the Problem I will discuss the case of the modern Japanese writing system by starting with two fundamental points, one a statement and one a question: 1. The writing system of present-day Japan is ancient (statement); 2. Considering the first point, how does this ancient writing system work in modern Japanese society? (question). As to the first point, there are good reasons to support the view that the present-day Japanese writing system is ancient. If we look at the Latin alphabet, we can acknowledge that it is without a doubt ancient, even more ancient than the system used by the Japanese. We may argue over the meaning of ‘ancient’ in reference to a writing system. Actually, it has a double meaning: 1. The characters have a long history. 2. The ‘system’ – how it works or how it is related to the spoken language – has developed in ancient times, and has remained ossified at an old stage. Of course, here I am referring to the second case. As regards the English writing system, for example, nobody can deny that it is typical of the second case since it represents language at an older stage, and has remained fixed at that stage. The question, then, is the reciprocal relation between a writing system and language. The present-day Japanese writing system, which was also developed in ancient times, has remained fundamentally unchanged up to now, and has influenced the spoken language." @default.
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- W2497053112 title "An Ancient Writing System for Modern Japan" @default.
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