The Commentary deals only with stylistic and linguistic matters. Textual problems are sometimes discussed, but only when they can be illuminated by points of usage. Diverse subjects are treated, but certain themes predominate. Many of the notes are concerned with the history and usage of certain words and stylistic devices down to the end of the first century A.D. Tacitus' originality and idiosyncrasies, and his indebtedness both to contemporary developments in educated usage and to the historiographical tradition, are pointed out. Archaisms, poeticisms, and words of high style are differentiated from words current among the educated classes. Tacitus' vocabulary is compared in artificiality with that of previous historians and other archaising writers of the early Empire. The Controversiae and Suasoriae of the Elder Seneca, the Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian, and the Declamations ascribed to Quintilian have been taken as evidence for the ordinary educated usage of the period.

No description available.

本論文では，近現代日本語小説を分析対象とし，社会的文体の経時的変化と個人文体の意図的な変化をめぐって統計的分析法及び機械学習法のアプローチで計量分析を行った。まず，口語体が確立されてから日本の近現代小説の文体にどのような変化が起こっているかについて考察した。そして，現代作家の水村美苗が近代文学への憧れを原点として創作した一連の作品を取り上げ，水村の意図的な文体変化について分析した。 / 博士(文化情報学) / Doctor of Culture and Information Science / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University