地名・場所・場所イメージ

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  • Place, Place Name and Place Image
  • チメイ バショ バショ イメージ バショ イメージ ノ キゴウカ ニ カンスル
  • an Essay on Symbolization of Place Image
  • 場所イメージの記号化に関する試論

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In this paper the term place image is used in its broadest sense to mean all kinds of mental imagery related to a certain place. The recognition of a place is to relate place images with that place. The author defines the idea which arises from this recognition a place. The concept of place implies' both existing space (place) and the image for this place. Therefore every life has this concept of place.<br>In human society, a place name existing as a sign indicates a particular place. We can recognize in this a symbolic relation between place name as significant and place as signifie. As the symbolic relation once accepted as a social norm is passed on in the social group, in mature and complicated societies, most places alreaday have place names and the society's members must learn the symbolic relations.<br>To recognize a place indicated by a place name is to have an image for that place. Therefore a place name not only represents a place as a part of space but causes recognition of place by connecting it with a personal place image. Now places and place names are given a variety of meanings and values by the personal place image, so we can understand the relation between man and place, and explain human behaviour by decoding these meanings. We could deal with this as a problem of interpretation of places.<br>Although each member of the social group has a personal place image for a given place and place name, there is a commonly held part in each place image. As a result of decoding the relation between place, place name and place image, we can communicate a common place image to each other by use of that place name. Such social place images intensify regulation by repeated use in the society. The author calls this process symbolization of place images. We use this social place image in communicating on a social level.<br>In Japan, place images symbolized on a national level are seen frequently and are most important. Some examples of places influenced by such symbolization are as follows:<br>1. Artists often make better use of existing place images in their works for communication with their audience. On the other hand, it sometimes happens that the personal place images of artists get symbolized socially through expression in their works.<br>2. The images of places having a figurative relation to each other can be placed in a certain system and are apt to be symbolized because of the connection of images intensitied by the association.<br>3. Place image often produces economic values, for example a rise in land prices or an increase in the number of tourists, by connecting with ideas having social values.<br>4. Once the symbolization of a place name and place image is formed, the relation is not easily broken. Therefore when there is a gap between actural conditions and the symbolized place image, it no longer represents the true content.

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  • 人文地理

    人文地理 39 (5), 391-405, 1987

    一般社団法人 人文地理学会

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