2019, Vol., No.59

The Japanese Language Association of Korea 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.0

pISSN : 1229-7275
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jlak

Current Trends and Prospects of Studies on Japanese Phonetics and Phonology This study outlines the phonetic and phonological studies published in 18 journals in South Korea from 2017 to 2018, and discusses their characteristics, prospects and challenges. The number of phonetic and phonological studies published in this period is 34, which is less than a half of the total of 73 studies published between 2015 and 2016. Among the 34 studies, 20 studies were about phonetic education, accounting for more than a half of the total. This indicates that the importance of phonetic education has increased. Furthermore, studies of new perspectives have also appeared, and this trend is expected to continue in the future. Important future tasks include cultivating researchers, creating a large phonetic database of Korean learners, and building a new syllabus of phonetic education to utilize the research results in phonetic education.

This paper examines research articles, published in Korean academic journals in 2017 and 2018, on Japanese grammar and explores their current trends, clarifies special features, and provides insight into the prospect of future studies on Japanese grammar. I tried to divide Japanese grammar into several categories. This paper will examine research articles on Japanese grammar that have been published in papers. Descriptive grammar studies, Contrast research between Korean and Japanese, Translation research applying contrast studies, Application to Japanese language education and grammar research, Research using corpus, Cognitive semantics and cognitive grammar, Politeness and discourse, Various research methods were used. besides, The trends of the Japanese grammar research which is found in the Japanese Linguistic Society was clarified. The direction and contents of the research being done in the book seems to have not changed much in the way of research in Korea. Therefore, it can be said that research on Japanese grammar in Korea is carried out similarly to international research on Japanese grammar. There are not many announcements, postings, or research findings by Korean researchers at Japanese academic conferences, seminars, etc. This is because Japanese academic societies do not acknowledge much in the field of research in Korea. It is because research articles highly evaluates academic papers registered in the Korea Research Foundation. I think that such phenomenon will prevail for the time being. I think research articles will change positively as the standard of evaluation in Korea changes. In spite of such bad conditions, Korean researchers should positively announce a lot in Japan.

This paper outlines the results of articles on lexicalogical research published in the Japanese academic community in Korea for two years from 2017 to 2018. The research trends in each field are summarized into seven categories: word meaning, word form (word composition, word type, social styles), structure of lexicon, lexical survey, and socio-cultural lexicology. In general, research on structure of lexicon centered on synonyms has been active, and research on word meaning and lexical survey has increased, but research on word composition, word type, and social styles has decreased compared to the past two years. A study on the change of meanings of synonyms and onomatopoeia, a socio-cultural study on the lexicology that forms social values through vocabulary and media reflecting culture, and the corpus lexicology researches which are the method of collocation extraction, the application of multimedia corpus to Japanese education were booming. In the later Korean vocabulary research, there is a study on vocabulary research as well as recent history linguistic vocabulary research, sociolinguistic vocabulary research, comparative linguistic vocabulary study, and corpus vocabulary research as well as Saito and Ishii (2011) It is hoped that cross-disciplinary studies such as dialectology, philology, folklore, feminism, information science, and psychology are expected.