标题:Japanology as ‘Encompassing philology’ and its prospects for the 21st Century: Functional- structuralist approach to the Japanese language revisited
期刊名称:Tabula - Journal of the Department of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
印刷版ISSN:1331-7830
出版年度:2021
卷号:18
页码:91-108
DOI:10.32728/tab.18.2021.7
语种:English
出版社:Department of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
摘要: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”.