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Elegant and Efficient Communication by Haiku-Like Concise Sentences

Elegant and Efficient Communication by Haiku-Like Concise Sentences

Yoshihiko Nitta
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522579793|ISBN10: 1522579796|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522590873|EISBN13: 9781522579809
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7979-3.ch013
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Nitta, Yoshihiko. "Elegant and Efficient Communication by Haiku-Like Concise Sentences." Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches, edited by Takashi Ogata and Taisuke Akimoto, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 449-468. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7979-3.ch013

APA

Nitta, Y. (2019). Elegant and Efficient Communication by Haiku-Like Concise Sentences. In T. Ogata & T. Akimoto (Eds.), Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches (pp. 449-468). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7979-3.ch013

Chicago

Nitta, Yoshihiko. "Elegant and Efficient Communication by Haiku-Like Concise Sentences." In Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches, edited by Takashi Ogata and Taisuke Akimoto, 449-468. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7979-3.ch013

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Abstract

Poetic fragmental sentences such as Haiku are often free from grammatical constraint while maintaining full message transmitting power. The author takes Haiku, a classical Japanese concise poetic sentence, as an elegant and efficient communication language for a digital signal system. By using the functional grammar and season-word ontology, the author will throw light on the secret of efficiency in Haiku-like sentences. It is often said that this efficiency comes from artistic mutism—ellipsis or abbreviation. Various events and situations are narrated in a very short and simple sentence, which is composed of a 5-7-5 pattern of letters, words, or phrases. Haiku-like sentences can be composed in non-Japanese, such as English, French, Chinese, etc. The most important Haiku philosophy is “the universality” (Fueki-Ryukou), which was first told by the great poet Basho in 1689. The benefit of universality is even ranging over the digital communication system. That is, the Haiku-like sentence enables highly efficient and concise communication. You can so much as write a cipher by Haiku.

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