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Current Trends and Prospects of Studies on the History of Japanese Language

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2019, (59), pp.83-100
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2019.59.83
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : January 5, 2019
  • Accepted : February 11, 2019
  • Published : March 20, 2019

Park, Hyokyung 1

1한양사이버대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study outlines and examines the trend observed in 115 Japanese history studies published in Korea from 2017 to 2018. The papers on Japanese history were compiled in chronological order by dividing them into five categories: characterization, phoneme, vocabulary, grammar, and others (translation and bibliographic research). The overall features can be summarized as follows: (1) There are a significant number of studies based on foreign materials related to Japanese and multilingual materials used in combination with Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English. (2) The papers focusing on the history of Japanese are concentrated in the transition from the Middle Ages to the early Modern, or from the early Modern to the recent times. (3) Modern data are studied in a wide range of areas, including vocabulary exchanges, translations and colonial education in East Asia, and is expected that this trend continues to increase. As an overall trend, since it is the historical study of language, many papers have adopted the methodology of traditional Japanese study that is based on the bibliographic methodology. On the other hand, the subject of the study is expanding to deal with the language exchange and influence of Chinese character cultures such as China and Vietnam. It is expected that history researches of Japanese language will further be active through globalization and diversification.

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