본문 바로가기
  • Home

On the Development of Inanimate-Subject Passive as Modern Public Language

Han Joung-Youn 1

1한양대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This thesis has examined the theory of the development of inanimate-subject passive as modern public language and the influenceof translation style by raising questions about the examinations of the information on Tsuchiya(1962, 1969) and Shimizu(1980) whotried to explain the development of inanimate-subject passive in the modern times not based on such factors outside Japaneselanguage as the influence of Western language translation style but rather based on such social and cultural backgrounds of themodern times as the evolution of public language and the development of objective, business, and scholarly sentences and about thesubsequent conclusions and by probing into the instances of the use of passive voice by dividing the academic and ideological books ofthe early modern times into Japanese books and translated books. Through the examinations, this thesis elucidates that the instances of the use of inanimate-subject passive are abundant both inquantity and quality in translated books rather than in Japanese books even in the cases of the academic and ideological books thatcould be regarded as ones that use objective and scholarly sentences and has confirmed that there is a lack of justifications in theposition of Tsuchiya(1962) who tried to research not based on the influence of translation style but with emphasis on the internalmotive of Japanese language on the basis of the investigation that the instances of the use of inanimate-subject passive is used morein Japanese books rather than in translated books. Inanimate-subject passive, though limited in the method of use, has existed in Japanese language as well from the days prior to themodern times, and there is a possibility that it has further developed through the emergence of modern phraseology with this as aninternal motive of Japanese language. However, it cannot be denied that there has been the powerful influence of translated sentencesover the development of modern phraseology and over inanimate-subject passive as one of its derivations.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.