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Anime Promotes Dialect Usage Among Japanese Date: 10/14/2005 |
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According to new research in Japan among female high school students, 30% use various Japanese dialectic speech in their daily conversation, and 30 percent or more in writing e-mail on their mobile phones. C-NEWS and Infoplant Ltd. conducted the recent survey in a search to see if dialects were becoming popular among high school students. Answers were tallied from female net users in junior and senior high schools who live in metropolitan areas. 124 junior high school students, 276 high school students (400 total) were the sample group being polled. Main influences were cited as hearing the dialects used by music artists, in TV shows, in Movies and animation. Entertainment found to use dialects included the manga Love Com (Lovely Complex), the recent hit film Swing Girls ), and the television program Mathew's Best Hit TV. Linguists generally consider mutual intelligibilty to be the best test of language dialects. Japanese Dialects can be a hard thing to comprehend for a native English speaker with little grasp on the language. "It all sounds the same?" most will say in the face of Kansai or Tokyo dialect. The closest thing English speakers have to relate to are our various regional accents (Australian, British, American etc..) and they are not even developed into proper dialects as of yet. For a better sample of the effect a dialect can have on your understanding of a common language, check this resource on the history of English. |
| Source: Anime News Service |
