もののカテゴリー化に関する比較文化的研究(その2) : 日本・中国本土・台湾・韓国を中心に

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Following the African study which was reported earlier (see Vol.66 of this Bulletin), present study was conducted under the auspices of the Grant-in-Aid of the Japanese Ministry of Education (Category C No.07610147), how perception and categorization of objects differ in four regions of Asia ; namely Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan and Korea. The stimulus figures were exactly the same ones that were used in the African study.(See Appendix A.) The regions selected were Ibaraki Prefecture, Nontheast of Tokyo (Japan), The City of Beijin and its neigboring area (Mainland China), Taipei and Shichin (Taiwan), Seoul and its vicinity (Korea). Twenty subjects consisting of males and females, age range from 20s and 30s took part in the survey. The results obtained are the following : 1. There exist certain perception and categorization of objects in terms of culture-specific prototypes. These were found in all types of figures. 2. There are certain varieties and differences in range of naming to the same figures which depend upon surveyed areas. The above two findings seem to support the view of culture-specific prototype which was proposed by Rosch some twenty years ago and also lend itself to support the view of the weak form of "Sapir Whorf hypothesis"- the lexical semantic effect of naming - which revived our interest through the recent article by Hunt and Angoli in 1991.
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