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A Study on the enumeration of person pronouns in Japanese : Focusing on the relationship with the sentences

Seyama Midori 1

1수원대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, the relationship with the sentences is considered regarding how person pronouns in Japanese are listed in order. In the advanced studies, it was identified to be listed in the order of first person → second person → third person, but as the order of enumeration was not clear for colleagues, consideration was enabled on the enumeration of colleagues. As a result of extracting examples from “Corpus” and novels and summarizing the examples, it was identified that the person of subject in the sentence tends to be enumerated easily. Based on the above results, the factors except the factors enumerated in the order of first person → second person → third person and the factors relevant to the person of subject being enumerated first were investigated. As a result, the 6 factors were identified: a. Suggestion on the listener, b. Intention of the narrator to match the level of the character in the succeeding part to the character in the preceding part, c. Setting on the third person existing beside on speech, d. Character appearing for the first time in the overall sentence, e. Setting of the third person in the enumeration included in the person of subject and narrator to be set as the subject of interest such as anger or intimacy, and f. Intention of directing objectivity.

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