Environmental image of basin districts in primary school songs

Creators Nakazono Mahito

Creators Iwamoto Shinji

Creators Shoji Akemi

Creators Ukita Masao

The main purpose of this study is to clear the universality and characteristics of representative symbolic environment image of basin districts of Japan. The reason that the school song is considered is the following 2 points. (1) A symbolic environment of the area that has universality that should convey to children is extracted. It is expressed concisely and plainly.(2) As for an elementary school, school district is narrow even more than junior high school or high school, and the environmental characteristics of the place are reflected to the song. It can grasp a boundaritive image, with an environmental image that shares comprehensive. The results are as follows. Geographic environmental elements of the mountain, river and earth are included in school songs a lot. It is positioned as the universal environmental image. Thus, a symbolic space structure of an area can be grasped. Also an ecological environmental image is as well possible to be grasped. The difference of a rate of appearance of the environmental element is existed in school song. It expresses the characteristics of the environment richly. It is an effective text in linguistics comprehension of a symbolic environment of the area that a human feeling catches.

[ISSN]0386-3433

[NCID]AA0086073X