Haiku-Like Aesthetic Sentence Composition Through the Narrative Process

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Author(s): Yoshihiko Nitta (Nihon University, Japan)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 24
Source title: Content Generation Through Narrative Communication and Simulation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Takashi Ogata (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)and Shin Asakawa (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4775-4.ch009

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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Abstract

Aesthetic sentences often behave freely from ordinary grammatical constraints; nevertheless, they maintain rich message transmitting power. This is apparently a mysterious language phenomenon, which dexterously gives full play to its strong narrative power on the reader's soul. In this chapter, the author takes haiku, classical Japanese short poetic sentence, as a model of aesthetic sentence. By using the concept of functional grammar and season-word ontology, the author tries to approach the secret of taciturn beauty in poetic sentences. The beauty of haiku exists in ellipses, suggestions, and eloquent mutism of 5-7-5 syllable short sentences. In this chapter, the author introduces the functional grammar as a device for explaining the meaning and construction of haiku. The functional grammar claims that every sentence is composed of two categories: kernel sentence and meta-sentence. The author tries to reveal the secrets of the aesthetic beauty of the ultimately simple sentence, haiku.

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