評介：田中智子編2011《客家語入門（Hakka Language for Beginners）》

Book Review: The Hakka Language for Beginners (2011) by Tomoko Tanaka

本文透過評介東京外國語大學アジア‧アフリカ言語文化研究所出版發行之田中智子編著2011《客家語入門（Hakka Language for Beginners）》一書，經由日籍學人的心眼，描述臺灣美濃客語的部分圖像。重點討論編著者以「漢字表記」拼音語料，既能有「目治」——可以用眼睛閱讀，有望「漢字」而產生意義聯想的效應，又衍生出來某些預期外的附加效應。同時嘗試對目的語的某些準語法功能詞，諸如VP後的補語動詞、句末助詞/e/等，進一步商榷。

This article reviews Tomoko Tanaka's(2011) 客家語入門The Hakka Language for Beginners published by the Language and Culture Studies department of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, a book illustrating Hakka from a Japanese scholar's perspective. This review focuses on the 漢字表記 “Chinese characters on Chinese-Hakka transcribing system” adopted in this book, a methodology which has the advantage of high readability for Chinese speakers with additional merits. Also, this article discusses some of the functional words of the Hakka language addressed in this work, such as the post-VP verbal complements and the sentence-final particle /e/, in pursuit of a reconsideration of these issues.