2020, Vol., No.86

Journal of Japanese Culture 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.36

pISSN : 1226-3605 / eISSN : 2733-8908
https://journal.kci.go.kr/JJC

This paper examined the status of interlanguage that emerges in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese request behaviors in a contact situation by analyzing interview materials that recorded the start of conversations among international students studying at a university. The results showed that, even in brief conversation situations in which students entered the professor’s lab, greeted one another, and introduced themselves, conversation strategies adopted by the learner and native speaker took on various forms. interlanguage in the contact situation showed non-uniform and complex aspects, ranging from conversation strategies that retained the influence of the mother tongue to conversation strategies of the target language and conversation strategies that were different from both the mother tongue and target language. This paper has limitations in that it failed to go beyond just reporting the overall discourse structure of the interlanguage of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese learners’ request behaviors in a contact situation. Recognizing these limitations, I will continue an in-depth analysis of conversations between requesters and requested persons to reveal the interlanguage status of learners of three languages: Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

Interrupted speech expressions are one of the methods of communication used in Japanese to interact without finishing a sentence, through the use ofby using utterances. This study focuses on the function and burden of expressions of interrupted speech, kedo, in Japanese native speakers’ conversations. Kedo can be divided into two functions: providing information and requesting information. In this study,The researcher has observed 148 kinds of ways of providing information and 40 ways ofof requesting information were observed. Thus, Iit was found that providing information in kedo is more often usedcommon than requesting information. Similarly, the use of introduction, body, and conclusion in a conversation was more present in providing information than requesting information. Furthermore, it appeared that the higher the burden of the request was, the higher the kedo’s usage rate augmented, varying from 56 ats its lowest to 132 ats its highest. The reason behind these results is that kedo has a function ofcan reduceing the burden felt when requesting something. From these outcomes, it was found thatTherefore, Japanese native speakers can ease the burden felt by the other party tothrough the use of provideing information and self-avoidance while using kedo when the discourse’s body is being developed.

This paper is a reconsideration of the whole story of the massacre of the Korean people in the Great Kanto Earthquake by examining the discourse and policies of the Japanese government before and after the incident. The Japanese government used this catastrophe to annihilate Korean anti-Japanese nationalists.This paper looked at how the word 'Criminal Korean' was made and circulated and how it was used to represent certain images in the Japanese society. A thorough examination of the documents of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an exhaustive inspection of the imposition of the Japanese martial law led to the reconstruction of the story of the massacre of the Korean people in the Great Kanto Earthquake. It was confirmed that the majority of 'criminal Koreans' were nationalists, independent activists, and officers of the provisional government. A comprehensive review of the content and the process of dispersal of groundless rumors right after the Great Earthquake, the content and purpose of the martial law, army and police movements after the imposition of the martial law, and the slaughter in the Narasino prison camp revealed that the policies and measures of the Japanese government were all focused on the annihilation of 'criminal Koreans'.