Kakikotoba Expressions in Japanese Language Teaching

This study takes up a basic problem of Japanese language expressions; Kakikotoba and Hanashikotoba, and tries to elucidate their meaning and nature referring to the Genbunitch (Unification of Written and Spoken Japanese) Movement, sentence style of the newspapers in those days and ideas in the field of education. This study tries also to find a pattern in classical written expressions that still remain in modern Japanese sentences. In this section, the study takes up the Genbunitch Movement, crossexamining opinions of the two groups; the Genbunitch (Kogo, Hanashikotoba) group and the Bungo (Kakikotoba) group. The study finds that the Kakikotoba expressions are deeply rooted in people's ideas of traditional values such as formality and authoritarianism. In contrast to Kakikotoba, Hanashikotoba expressions are based on ideas of utilitarianism, rationalism and realism