Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.32728/tab.18.2021.7
Japanology as ‘Encompassing philology’ and its prospects for the 21st Century: Functional- structuralist approach to the Japanese language revisited
Jiri Matela
Abstract
The recent development of the academic field of Japanese studies towards interdisciplinary cultural studies paradigm has been causing certain downfalls of traditional philological orientations within this area of scholarship. The aim of the present paper is to reflect on the tradition of Prague school’s functional-structuralist approach to language and text and present its application on contemporary Japanese studies programs.
The functional-structuralist approach presented in the paper is based on the unified dichotomy of system (of signs) and texts (as sign formations), the latter being defined by the features of genre classification, situational binding and discourse tradition. The framework of ‘Encompassing philology’ applied to the field of Japanese studies aspires to fulfill the basic needs of a modern interdisciplinary orientation and at the same time strengthen the role of the Japanese language beyond the “tool for communication”.
Keywords
Japanese language; Japanology; Functional structuralism; Prague school; Encompassing philology
Hrčak ID:
265772
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Publication date:
24.11.2021.
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