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COMPARATIVE CASE C03

Italian / Italiano / イタリア語

Passeggiata

When Repeated Practice Becomes Social Space

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Observation / Hypothesis

Shared Frame

Language to Protocol

  1. 01

    Language

  2. 02

    Emotion

  3. 03

    Body

  4. 04

    Community

  5. 05

    Style

  6. 06

    Protocol

Language → Emotion → Body → Community → Style → Global Protocol

Case Variation

Practice Before Naming

  1. 01

    Body

  2. 02

    Repeated Practice

  3. 03

    Place Activation

  4. 04

    Social Encounter

  5. 05

    Shared Recognition

  6. 06

    Naming

Body → Repeated Practice → Place Activation → Social Encounter → Shared Recognition → Naming

01. Body

01. Body

  • walking
  • pace
  • stopping
  • looking
  • greeting
  • accompanying
  • appearing in public

Hypothesis

What Came First?

Language ↔ Practice

  1. 01

    Language

  2. 02

    Practice

02. Repetition

02. Repetition

03. Place

03. Place

  • encounter
  • visibility
  • recognition
  • routine

Place Activation

Place Activation

  1. 01

    Place

  2. 02

    Repeated Bodies

  3. 03

    Encounter

  4. 04

    Recognition

  5. 05

    Social Meaning

04. Social Encounter

04. Social Encounter

  • seeing familiar people
  • greeting
  • being seen
  • chance encounter
  • small conversation
  • observing others

05. Recognition

05. Recognition

06. Naming

06. Naming

When Does Naming Happen?

Naming Timing

  1. 01

    Practice

  2. 02

    Recognition

  3. 03

    Naming

07. Practice-forming

07. Practice-forming

Culture-Born Language?

Culture-Born Language?

  1. 01

    Practice

  2. 02

    Culture

  3. 03

    Naming

  4. 04

    Reflection

08. Transmission

08. Transmission

Comparison

What Came First?

Language → Practice

Practice → Language

Comparison

Planned ≠ Emergent Interaction

Planned

Emergent

Comparison

Ritual ≠ Routine?

Ritual

Routine

Comparison

Same Outcome ≠ Same Mechanism

Uchi / Soto

Passeggiata

Comparison

Embodiment Does Different Work

Gyaru

Passeggiata

Comparison

Word / Practice Repetition

C02 Schadenfreude

C03 Passeggiata

Mechanism Test M06 — Embodiment

Mechanism Test M06 — Embodiment

  • C01 Nunchi — Present
  • C02 Schadenfreude — Secondary
  • C03 Passeggiata — Strong candidate

Mechanism Test M04 — Repetition

Mechanism Test M04 — Repetition

  • C01 Nunchi — Strong / Behavioral Learning
  • C02 Schadenfreude — Secondary / Lexical Circulation
  • C03 Passeggiata — Strong candidate / Routine Stabilization

Mechanism Test M01 — Naming

Mechanism Test M01 — Naming

  • C01 / C02 — Naming early / central
  • C03 — Naming may arrive late as Practice Categorization

Community Without Membership?

Community Without Membership?

  • same place, repeated use
  • familiar faces before acquaintance
  • thin sociality without formal membership

Language Is Not Always First

Language Is Not Always First

Cause / Infrastructure / Symptom / Amplifier

Four Positions

  • Cause — 言葉が実践を作った
  • Infrastructure — 名前が実践を共有・説明可能にした
  • Symptom — すでにある社会実践を言葉が表した
  • Amplifier — 名前が文化意識・再現・流通を強めた

Three Comparative Routes

Three Comparative Routes

  • C01 Nunchi — Language → Social Perception → Behavior / Behavioral Adjustment
  • C02 Schadenfreude — Emotion → Naming → Recognition / Shared Recognition
  • C03 Passeggiata — Practice → Repetition → Social Space → Naming / Embodied Social Practice

Oshi Comparison

Ritual ≠ Routine?

  • Oshi — Ritual Reinforcement
  • Passeggiata — Routine Stabilization

Community Without Institution

Institutional / Emergent

  • Senpai / Kohai — Institutional pattern
  • Passeggiata — Emergent social pattern

Culture May Precede Naming

Culture May Precede Naming

Mutation Model

Origin to Circulation

  1. 01

    Origin

  2. 02

    Translation

  3. 03

    Mutation

  4. 04

    Circulation

Market

Practice / Discourse Circulation

Practice Path

  1. 01

    Bodily walking

  2. 02

    Repeated presence

  3. 03

    Social encounter

  4. 04

    Named practice

Transmission Path

  1. 01

    Practice-word

  2. 02

    Image / tourism contact

  3. 03

    Local reinterpretation

  4. 04

    Named-practice recognition

Counter Hypotheses

Counter Hypotheses

  • APractice First

    Practice First

  • BUrban Form

    Urban Form

  • CClimate / Time

    Climate / Time

  • DCommunity

    Community

  • EVisibility

    Visibility

  • FNaming

    Naming

  • GTourism / Media

    Tourism / Media

  • HEntanglement

    Entanglement

Current Case Axis

Body → Repeated Practice → Social Space → Naming

Connected Observatories

Connections

Research Questions

Research Questions

Does “passeggiata” create a social practice, or name a practice that already created its own culture?