Efficient but soft communication by Haiku-like fragmental sentences
Yoshihiko Nitta · 2015
Poetic fragmental sentence such as Haiku often behaves freely from grammatical constraint while maintaining almost full linguistic message transmitting power. It is somewhat mysterious language phenomenon that Haiku-like fragmental sentence can dexterously gives full play to their persuasive power on reader's soul. In this paper we take HAIKU, classical Japanese short poetic sentence, as a soft communication language on highly rigid and efficient DSP world. Here DSP stands for Digital Signal Processing. By using the concept of functional grammar and season-word ontology, we try to approach the secret of taciturn efficiency in poetic sentences. The efficiency of HAIKU is often said to exist in ellipses, abbreviation and suggestions; eloquent mutism. Various events and situation that suggests tacitly the deep emotion and feelings of writer are described in a very short and simple sentence which is composed of 5-7-5 letters words or phrases. In this paper we will introduce a Functional Grammar as a device for analyzing the meaning and construction of HAIKU. The Functional Grammar claims that every sentence is composed of two categories: kernel sentence and meta-sentence. We show typical examples of meta-sentences and kernel sentences obtained from HAIKU, and try to reveal the secrets of aesthetic efficiency of ultimately simple sentence, HAIKU. One more important thing, in this paper we will treat English version of HAIKU, as an efficient soft communication language. In the highly digitized and rigidly designed world, we may need Haiku-like soft and simple fragmental communication language.