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A study of vocabulary expressions and semantic characteristics of contemporary Japanese high school students: Focusing on vocabulary and meaning of creative tanka

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2014, (42), pp.75-93
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

백정희 1 Takao Ito 1

1홍익대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, creative tanka of the contemporary Japanese high school students were examined in terms of ‘vocabulary’ and ‘subject’ not only in order to analyze the diversity and tendency of their vocabulary expressions but also in order to perceive aspects of their daily concerns or the everyday lives from their viewpoints. As a result of this study, in terms of the vocabulary expression, it has been concluded that the contemporary Japanese high schoolstudents tend to incorporate various implications into a singular word and to employ delicate metaphors and slangs which are commonly used among teenagers. The expressions are abundant and various. In terms of the their daily concerns, it has been found that the contemporary Japanese high school students tend to converse about not only the subjects of family relationships, study, love, and problems of youth, but also the subjects of social affairs and the issue of life and death. With their own acute sense, they tend to describe their own realties experienced in their own world which cannot be perceived by general statistics or from the viewpoint of grown-ups.

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