A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English

Yang, Lili; Chen, Lilan

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01344-5

A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English

Yang, Lili; Chen, Lilan

Higher Education, 2024, 89, 53-81

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固定URL: https://hdl.handle.net/11094/98814

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タイトル	A lexical comparison of the public good of higher education: concepts, contextual underpinnings and implications, focusing on Japanese, Chinese and English
著者	著者名 Yang, Lili
著者	NRID 1000050972212 1000050972212 researchmap permalink lilanchen lilanchen ORCID 0000-0002-5367-3239 0000-0002-5367-3239 著者名 Chen, Lilan
キーワード等	Chinese
	Culture
	English
	Japanese
	Lexical-based comparison
	The public good of higher education
内容	The version of record of this article, first published in Higher Education, is available online at Publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01344-5.
抄録	While it is generally agreed that higher education is a public good and produces public goods, it remains unclear what this means. An important reason for the unclarity is the conceptual ambiguity and cultural nuances of the concept of the public good in higher education. Coupled with the Western dominance of discourse in higher education and language challenges in translation, the ambiguity and nuances further result in challenges for studies that explore and compare the public good of higher education across contexts. This paper employs a lexical comparison approach to address these challenges, all of which have been encountered by the comparative research project that leads to this Special Issue. Taking Japanese, Chinese and English as examples, it identifies key terms in the three languages, reveals contextual underpinnings of the key terms and the cultural distance between the terms, and discusses the implications of the lexical comparison. The paper argues that this lexical comparison has been effective in this particular analysis and the comparative research project, and has the potential to contribute to comparisons of other higher education topics involving multiple languages.
出版者	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
収録物名	Higher Education
巻(号)	89
ページ	53-81
刊行年月	2024-11-07
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/98814
PISSN	00181560
eISSN	1573174X
関連情報 (isIdenticalTo)	DOI (出版社版) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01344-5
アクセス権	open access
権利情報	This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
出版タイプ	Version of Record
カテゴリ	学術雑誌論文 Journal Article

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