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Yoshifumi Sato

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Source (Japanese)	Target (English)
恣意性	arbitrariness
ソシュールは、「能記」(signifiant)と「所記」（signifié）という2つの概念（シニフィアンとシニフィエ）を用いて、言語記号の音声・形態とその意味との間には必然的な関係性はないという言語記号の恣意性を説いた。	Saussure advocates the necessary relationship preached arbitrariness characteristics of the language sign that there was no necessary relationship among a sound, morpheme, and meaning by means of using two concepts significant andsignifié.
これとはほぼ反対の立場として音象徴（sound symbolism）という見解がある。	There is an opposite theory which is sound symbolism.
これは、音素そのものに何らかの意味や感覚、印象といったものがあり、言語記号はその組み合わせによって合理的に作られているとするものである。	This is a theory that the language sign is made reasonably by the pair, i.e., the phoneme itself has some kind of meanings and senses.
しかし、実際にはどの言語にも普遍的な音象徴というものは存在しないため、現在そのような立場の言語研究はあまり行われていない。	However, the language study of such a stand-point of view is not performed too much now because there is really what's called universal sound symbol for no language.

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2007 PhD at Simon Fraser University
1984 MA/MS at Ohio University
1975 BA at Hokkaido University of Education

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