日本の言文一致について - 明治20年代の小説の「地の文」を中心に -

Abstract

It was attempted to make the written and spoken sentences by a lots of authors because that type of novel has been popular since the era of Meiji 20(1887). For example, that was a literary style of Futabatei Shimei’s [da], Yamada Bimyo’s [des], Ozaki Koyo’s [de a ru]. This three author have written lots of famous works competitively in that times. Moreover, The spirit of the age were in existence that the novels were required more similar to people’s life in proportion to the increase of people’s desire on the reading interest. It means that the social change made rapid progress and peoples’s life also affluent. The unification of written and spoken language was a production of social change in that times. This article is investigated and studied into a peculiarity of the unification of written and spoken language on the typical works of the former three central figures. It means that their works were greatly important about a starting point of the movement on the unification of written and spoken language in japan. As the result, it was able to conform that enter upon an opposing phase in case of the expression of adjectives, negative auxiliary verb, and conclusion. Moreover, it also was conformed a characteristic of novel written in the unification of written and spoken language in case of ending sentences of a noun as well as [de].