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This paper is an attempt at analyzing how much religious vocabulary (in this case Buddhist vocabulary taken from a large scale dictionary of Buddhist terms available online) is present in everyday Japanese social space (in this case in a repository of blog entries form the Ameba blog service) and thus in the consciousness of people. We also investigate and what associations (positive or negative) it generates, thus indicating the connotations associated with several Buddhist terms – whether expressions containing Buddhist vocabulary are considered proper or not from a moral point of view – as well as the emotional response of Internet users to Buddhist terminology.
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For example, the phrase “thank you” is likely to associate with gratitude, relief and joy and “killing a person” is more likely to associate with such moral associations as “going to jail”, or “condemn”.
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Belonging to the categories of case markers (格助詞 kaku-joshi)-namely が ga, の no, を wo, に ni, へ he, と to, で de, から kara and より yori, adverbial particles (副助詞 fuku-joshi): ばかり bakari, まで made, だけ dake, ほど hodo, くらい kurai, など nado, なり nari, やら yara, binding particles (係助詞 kakari-joshi): は wa, も mo, こそ koso, でも demo, しか shika, さえ sae, だに dani and conjunctive particles (接続助詞 setsuzoku-joshi): ば ba, や ya, が ga, て te, のに noni, ので node, から kara, ところが tokoroga, けれども keredomo.
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Nieuważny, J., Masui, F., Ptaszynski, M., Araki, K., Rzepka, R., Nowakowski, K. (2020). Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs-Preliminary Analysis. In: Samsonovich, A. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019. BICA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25719-4_50
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