caa a22 4500 445302062 CHVBK 20180317142601.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12124-010-9122-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12124-010-9122-y Hidaka Tomoo Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan aut How Japanese Language Has Been Used and Transformed—Focused on Social-cultural Context and the Use in Communication [Elektronische Daten] [Tomoo Hidaka] In this paper I address that flexibility and vagueness of mimic word, especially Gitai-go, can provide the communication with tension leading us to the continuous process of meaning construction, focused on the history of Japanese characters as the core of mimic words. I present that Hiragana, as the character for Gitai-go, was started to use by people viewed as of no public authority such as women at that time while Kanji had a position as an official characters. As unofficial character, Hiragana was received and transformed by common people as the character which is more flexible and vague suited to express persons' experience than Kanji. Most of Gitai-go is written in Hiragana, and people can also create original and personalized one based on their experience. We can be driven by necessity to search the meanings of Gitai-go when we meet unknown one, through its vagueness. This undifferentiated nature and indefinite feature of Gitai-go provide us with tension of communication. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Mimic words nationallicence Japanese language nationallicence Social-cultural context nationallicence Gitai-go nationallicence Continuous meaning construction nationallicence Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/2(2010-06-01), 156-161 1932-4502 44:2<156 2010 44 12124 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9122-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9122-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hidaka Tomoo Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/2(2010-06-01), 156-161 1932-4502 44:2<156 2010 44 12124 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer