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Socio-cultural Characteristics of New Words and Buzzwords in ‘U-Can Japan New Words and Buzzwords Awards’: Focusing on Topics

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2019, (60), pp.53-68
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2019.60.53
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : March 31, 2019
  • Accepted : May 10, 2019
  • Published : June 20, 2019

Lee, Dan 1 Lee Eun Mi 2

1명지대학교 박사과정
2명지대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper explored the socio-cultural characteristics of new words and buzzwords in Japan through the analysis of the characteristics of topics on the words awarded and nominated for the ‘U-Can Japan New Words and Buzzwords Awards’ from 2006 to 2017 on the official website of Jiyu Kokumin sha. The results can be summarized as follows. First, as for the characteristics of topics of new words and buzzwords, topics were divided into 6 categories of ‘culture, art, education, philosophy, society, and nature’; and the number of words were presented by year and category. The result shows that the number of new words and buzzwords belonging to the ‘society’ category was the highest, counting 346 (53.8%) out of 643 words in total. The second highest number of new words and buzzwords belonged to the ‘culture’ category with 244 words (38%). Further, each category was classified in detail and the number of words for each year was counted. Among these, the item with the highest number of words was ‘mass media’ in the ‘culture’ category, with 150 words. The item with the second highest number of words was ‘politics’ in the ‘society’ category, with 93 words. There were cases where the original meaning of new words and buzzwords changed to refer to different objects; the number of such words was 137 (21.3%).

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