@article{ART002632630},
author={EO SOOJEONG},
title={A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:},
journal={The Japanese Language Association of Korea},
issn={1229-7275},
year={2020},
number={65},
pages={81-96},
doi={10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81}
TY - JOUR
AU - EO SOOJEONG
TI - A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:
JO - The Japanese Language Association of Korea
PY - 2020
VL - null
IS - 65
PB - The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
SP - 81
EP - 96
SN - 1229-7275
AB - The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) provided by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics is one of the most frequently used corpora for studying written Japanese. However, it is quite controversial to consider all 13 registers of BCCWJ as a general corpus of written Japanese. This paper overviews the BCCWJ, and clarifies the characteristic of each register by analyzing the frequency of appearance of ten words and expressions as either spoken Japanese or written Japanese. Results are as follows.
First, BCCWJ is a Japanese corpus with a strong characteristic of written Japanese, in which written Japanese appears more frequently than spoken Japanese in a ratio of 2:1. Second, the usage rate of spoken Japanese and written Japanese varies greatly depending on the register, and unlike other registers, blog registers use more spoken Japanese than written Japanese. Third, the ratio of spoken Japanese and written Japanese varies greatly depending on the word, regardless the part of speech (adverb, adjective, conjunction) of the word.
Based on the results of these analyses, this paper argues that it is somewhat problematic to regard BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese as a whole without considering the characteristic of each register. In addition, these results show that it is necessary to pay sufficient attention to the selection of the analysis object when analyzing written Japanese using BCCWJ.
KW - Corpus;Register;Spoken Japanese;Written Japanese;Frequency of appearance
DO - 10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
ER -
EO SOOJEONG. (2020). A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:. The Japanese Language Association of Korea, 65, 81-96.
EO SOOJEONG. 2020, "A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:", The Japanese Language Association of Korea, no.65, pp.81-96. Available from: doi:10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
EO SOOJEONG "A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:" The Japanese Language Association of Korea 65 pp.81-96 (2020) : 81.
EO SOOJEONG. A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:. 2020; 65 : 81-96. Available from: doi:10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
EO SOOJEONG. "A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:" The Japanese Language Association of Korea no.65(2020) : 81-96.doi: 10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
EO SOOJEONG. A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:. The Japanese Language Association of Korea, 65, 81-96. doi: 10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
EO SOOJEONG. A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:. The Japanese Language Association of Korea. 2020; 65 81-96. doi: 10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
EO SOOJEONG. A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:. 2020; 65 : 81-96. Available from: doi:10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
EO SOOJEONG. "A study on BCCWJ as a corpus of written Japanese:" The Japanese Language Association of Korea no.65(2020) : 81-96.doi: 10.14817/jlak.2020.65.81
