Elegant and Efficient Communication by Haiku-Like Concise Sentences

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Author(s): Yoshihiko Nitta (Nihon University, Japan)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 20
Source title: Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Takashi Ogata (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)and Taisuke Akimoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7979-3.ch013

Keywords: Communication Studies / Communications Theory / Education / Information Science Reference

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Abstract

Poetic fragmental sentences such as Haiku are often free from grammatical constraint while maintaining full message transmitting power. The author takes Haiku, a classical Japanese concise poetic sentence, as an elegant and efficient communication language for a digital signal system. By using the functional grammar and season-word ontology, the author will throw light on the secret of efficiency in Haiku-like sentences. It is often said that this efficiency comes from artistic mutism—ellipsis or abbreviation. Various events and situations are narrated in a very short and simple sentence, which is composed of a 5-7-5 pattern of letters, words, or phrases. Haiku-like sentences can be composed in non-Japanese, such as English, French, Chinese, etc. The most important Haiku philosophy is “the universality” (Fueki-Ryukou), which was first told by the great poet Basho in 1689. The benefit of universality is even ranging over the digital communication system. That is, the Haiku-like sentence enables highly efficient and concise communication. You can so much as write a cipher by Haiku.

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