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オタゴ大学の図書館に,新入生のための案内のパンフレットがあり,ふと手に取ってみた.そのなかに,UNIVERSITY JARGON と題するコラムがあった.大学での修学の仕方を手短かに教える内容だ.
UNIVERSITY JARGON
Starting to research your study options and already feeling lost in the jargon? Here are some common terms you're likely to come across.
A DEGREE is the qualification you complete at university. This is your overall PROGRAMME. Your degree will have an abbreviation such as BA, BSc or BCom. That's code for Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Commerce, and so on.
Some PROGRAMMES, such as Health Sciences First Year (HSFY), will lead on to many other degrees.
The SUBJECT you specialise in within your degree is called your Major. When you start your first year at university, choose three or four subjects you'd like to try. One will become your major.
In many degrees you can choose to have a MINOR as well. This is a subject you have stuided at each level, but not in as much depth as your major.
Each subject has LEVELS (100, 200, 300). The first courses youtake are called 100-level papers or beginner papers.
Each subject is divided into PAPERS. They are like topics within each subject --- the building blocks of your degree. They have codes like HIST 104, PSYC 201 and MART 304. The papers you choose each year are your course of study.
When you pass each paper, you get POINTS towards your degree. Papers are generally worth 18 points and a three-year degree needs 360 points. This usually consists of 20 papers, an average of 7 papers per year.
A DOUBLE DEGREE is when you study two degrees at the same time. There are also options to combine two majors from different degrees in a single four-year degree. These COMBINED DEGREES include Arts and Business, Arts and Science, and Business Science.
かなり複雑な履修システムをコンパクトに解説している文章だと思うが,新入生にとって初見で理解するのは容易ではないだろう.読み手の私は大学のシステムを理解しているので,これだけで分かるのだが,実際には凝縮しすぎているように思われる.たとえば major と specialise という jargons の意味は,相互に規定されるものであるから,同じ文に共起することによって,一方でともに理解しやすくなるという事情もあるかもしれないが,他方でいずれもチンプンカンプンとなってしまう恐れがある.
この文章は,個々の jargon を新入生のために解説している文章として読むのが普通だろうが,実は新入生に jargon とは何かを教える文章となっているのではないかとも解釈でき,おもしろい.つまり,ここで新入生を意味不明な jargon の羅列にさらすことによって,大学という特有の世界に誘い,仲間意識を醸成しようとしているのだ,と.
jargon の役割は,その意味が一見して自明ではないところに存する.jargons の羅列やその語彙体系は,独特で魅惑的な世界をちらつかせ,そこに引き寄せられる者のみに入会を許可する社会言語学的な機能をもっている.
関連して「#2410. slang, cant, argot, jargon, antilanguage」 ([2015-12-02-1]) を参照.
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