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Historical changes of the Oni used by the young generation

  • Journal of Japanese Culture
  • 2019, (83), pp.161-175
  • DOI : 10.21481/jbunka..83.201911.161
  • Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : October 13, 2019
  • Accepted : November 6, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Lee, Jee-Eun 1

1立教大学

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the historical change of Oni, focusing on the development of language spoken by the younger generation, one of the linguistic phenomena of modern Japanese. Oni first appeared as a noun with a meaningless spirit in the relative era. After that, the meaning was extended to the existence of tangibles in the middle ages, and it became an object of metaphor that ‘like an Oni’ was used. A prefix directly combines with an object that is ‘like an Oni’. This prefix began to be used in earnest in recent years; Particularly, it is a change of usage from the Wakamono kotoba, used by a certain generation after 1990. In Wakamono kotoba, the adjectives expressing emotions were combined to use Oni as adverbs.. The reason why Oni was able to settle down in the language of the younger generation is because of the humor and convenience of the language has.

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