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A Study on Pragmatic Usage of「かもしれない(Kamosirenai)」In Priority Status of Learning of Korean Japanese Learner

Kwon Seong 1 송만익 1

1한밭대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Among expressions that Korean learners of Japanese have difficulty with are speculative expressions. Speculative expressions have 「だろう(darou)」 for subjective expression and 「かもしれない(kamosirenai)」 for possibility, and these are sometimes expressed in terms of subordinate clause with 「~けど(kedo)(が(ga))」 to convey euphemism. So this paper examined how this pattern of expression is used in Japanese and how it is translated into Korean. This paper also examined whether the learners are well acquainted with the expression. All the sentences with subordinate clauses by means of 「~けど(kedo)(が(ga))」 in the drama scripts of Japan selected were excerpted to examine the two forms in Japanese, 「だろう (darou)」 and 「かもしれない (kamosirenai)」. The results show that in sentences with subordinate clauses, 「かもしれない (kamosirenai)」 was used more frequently than 「だろう(darou)」, which indicates that it is more natural in periphrasis to use 「かもしれない (kamosirenai)」 than 「だろう (darou)」. As for the result of the survey on the learners, the learners chose 「だろう (darou)」 or conclusive expression for 「かもしれない (kamosirenai)」 used by Japanese people. Besides its speculative usage, 「かもしれない (kamosirenai)」 is also used to express periphrasis. So when the learners learn speculative expressions, it would be helpful for deeper understanding and use of speculative expressions to comprehend cases not only of speculative usage but also of pragmatics.

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