Moreover, I would have to imagine combinations I would require in order to exhaustively analyze the selected themes. I will devise a way to create categories such as bottom up and top down, theory and practice, general and special, linguistic information and non-verbal information, strong and weak and so on.
Table 2
Analytic combinations Description
Bottom up and top down The way to move from specialized information to overall image and vice versa.
Theory and practice This method of analysis is applied to all research areas. With regard to the linguistic analysis, for instance, the logical grammar of Montague is the theory and the training of translation is the practice.
General and special I would effect a general understanding and a special interpretation by analyzing a literary work. The former is an acceptance, and the latter is a synergy.
Linguistic information and non-verbal information The former is the information that is transferred through language; the latter is non-verbal information including feelings, thought, and judgment.
Strong and weak The level of components does not have to be equal. When one sets both elements to strong, it is difficult to develop the theme because one persists in the same combination.
I accommodated such combinations in my mind and wrote an introduction to calculation literature by analyzing Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, “A Madman’s Diary” and The True Story of Ah Q by Luxun, and Ogai Mori’s “Sansho the Bailiff” and “Jingoro Sahahsi.”
花村嘉英訳（2018）「シナジーのメタファーの作り方」より translated by Yoshihisa Hanamura