Linguistic Mechanisms for Immersing Readers in Manga: On the Draft of\nBarefoot Gen Part II by NAKAZAWA Keiji

Abstract

作品世界の心的表象を迅速かつ鮮明に形成する機構をマンガは備えている。複雑な機構のうち小論は、(1)読者の知覚に作用するオノマトペと、(2)視認性に優れた日本語テキストの特性を取り上げる。また、(3)読者のもつ背景知識が作品世界の心的表象に抱合されることで、作品内容の個人化が促進することも指摘する。小論は、(1)(2)の言語的な機構と、(3)の物語と読者との交渉が、マンガの読解を深めることを例証する。Manga is created based on the mechanisms that enable the rapid and vivid formation of mental images of the narrative world. Among the complex mechanisms, this paper will focus on (1) onomatopoeia, which affects the reader’s perception, and (2) the characteristics of Japanese text, with its excellent visibility. It also points out that (3) the incorporation of the reader’s background knowledge into the mental images of the narrative world promotes the personalization of the work’s content. The paper will present a study of the work in which the linguistic mechanisms of (1) and (2), as well as the dialogue between story and reader (3), contribute to the formation of a deep and rich manga-reading experience.15Pdepartmental bulletin pape