2024年度 早稲田大学 文化構想学部 Ⅲ 英文補充 解答

【解答】

Ⅲ　[出典：John C. Maher. Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect.]

25. h (Thus, every linguistic interaction is itself the reproduction of social structure.)

26. c (In nation-states of the world, the enforcement of linguistic conformity - proper language, standard language - continues to dominate educational and administrative policy.)

27. b (Air stewardess has been replaced by flight-attendant, gaijin has been replaced by gaikokujin, the kanji collocation is being replaced by the insertion of a neutralizing hiragana pronounced the same way.)

28. g (There appears to be a clear link between the nationalism of Germany and the bureaucratic language policy making which was just starting in Meiji era Japan.)

29. e (The implementation of a centralized bureaucracy was a paramount goal of the Meiji Government in its drive towards modernization.)

30. a (A revised educational system enforced the Tokyo dialect as the hyojungo or standard language of classroom and textbook.)

31. d (Since that time, a new but somewhat vague concept, kyotsu-go or 'common language', has been introduced, which tries to take account of the fact that dialectal varieties exist and may not be such a bad thing.)

【解説】

空所(26)と(27)は，それぞれの英文の意味だけでなく，用いられている動詞の時制と形もヒントになる。例えば，(26)は前後の文がどちらも現在普通形で書かれていることから，間に挟まれた(26)にも現在普通形の動詞を用いた英文が入る可能性が高いことが推測できる。また，(27)の前文は現在完了形で書かれており，後ろの文は現在普通形で書かれていることから，(27)にもそのどちらかの形の動詞を用いた英文が入る可能性が高いことが推測できる。