戰後臺灣閩南語地理語言學的回顧與展望

The Prospection and Retrospection of Geolinguistic studies in Taiwan Postwar

從小川尚義繪製〈臺灣言語分布圖〉到今年剛好滿百年，這百年來臺灣地理語言學能從戰後時期的消沉，而至今日的蓬勃發展，歷經了許多前人的努力。不只在語料上、研究成果上的累積，另外在語言調查、研究方法上經驗傳承與不斷地技術修正，才得以有今日臺灣地理語言學走向細緻化、跨學門化以及資訊化，獨具特色的發展方向，以及豐碩的研究成果。本文將針對戰後臺灣閩南語地理語言學，做整體的回顧與展望。回顧的目的，除了張顯前輩學者的成就，更在於記錄前輩學者的辛勤努力，以作為後學者效法的榜樣。展望的目的，在於知現今臺灣閩南語地理語言學的特色以及不足之處，以作為後學者砥礪努力的目標。依照本文的討論重點，以下茲分五小節論述之：1.前言2.地理語言學3.臺灣閩南語地理語言學的回顧4.現今臺灣閩南語地理語言學的局限與展望5.結論。

After Naoyoshi Ogawa laid a foundation, the research of Southern-Min dialect has been improved in Taiwan for development of hundred years. Especially in last decades, it has been improved quite a lot by obtaining excellent results, no matter on profundity and extent. However, the discussion in this paper is the retrospection of Southern-min dialect research of postwar Taiwan and the analysis of tendency in future development. Although Southern-Min dialect research of postwar Taiwan was affected greatly by Chinese scholars in Taiwan, the development of Southern-Min dialect research of Taiwan is different from China by the diversity of science passing down and research purpose which made Southern-Min dialect research of Taiwan gain uniqueness. Overall, Southern-Min research in China based on political and social circumstances. Thus, it valued the records of each place and emphasized the connection with Chinese. Also the purport is based on the research of historical comparative linguistics. Besides, it is limited by social circumstances, so the investigated areas are only countries, and take the sounds of city areas as standards. Therefore, it only presents the initial linguistic phenomenon and characteristics, but the internal differences of each country can't be revealed. On the opposite, comparing Southern-Min research of China with Southern-Min research of Taiwan, Southern-Min dialect research in Taiwan is much more diverse and microscopic, and gained great results, no matter on traditional dialectology, or on geographical linguistics. In addition, the investigated dialect areas are not only towns, but also villages. In recent years, the technique of geographical linguistics has been combined with Geographic Information System, GPS, and satellite photographs. And it has been more scientifically, and accurately, developed with computer technology. On the other hand, the geolinguistic research based on social linguistics also have gotten great achievement in Taiwan recently.