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Japanese, a Difficult Language : Study of Japanese Language in National Theater

  • International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)
  • Abbr : IGLL
  • 2023, (14), pp.267~290
  • DOI : 10.23073/riks.2023..14.009
  • Publisher : Glocal Institute of Language and Literary Studies(GILLS)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : September 15, 2023
  • Accepted : October 15, 2023
  • Published : October 31, 2023

Yi, Jooyoung 1

1한국교통대학교

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ABSTRACT

In a situation where Japanese was forced by Imperial Japan in the late Japanese colonial period, national plays had to include Japanese on stage in some way. It was very diffi cult to use this unfamiliar language on stage when most of the audience did not know Japanese. Korean creatives emphasized the necessity of learning Japanese by connecting Japanesespeaking characters with public power, education, capital, etc. and displaying them as a language of livelihood directly related to the lives of Koreans. Next, the creative team of the national play thought about eff ective learning methods for Japanese language education. One way is to create a situation where Japanese is spoken naturally in everyday life rather than using excessive Japanese on stage. In addition, it showed that Japanese is not a language of a specifi c class, but an everyday language that anyone can use. However, in scenes that evoke death, Japanese functioned as a language of concealment. Despite the various eff orts of national theater in Japanese, Japanese did not acquire the status of the fi rst language of Koreans until the end of Japanese colonial rule. Th is is a failure of imperial Japan’s language policy and at the same time a failure of the national theater, which failed to fulfi ll imperial Japan’s mission despite receiving strong support.

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