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Comparison of Celebrities’ Compliment Responses at the award ceremonies between Japanese and Korean

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2020, (66), pp.171-191
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2020.66.171
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : September 24, 2020
  • Accepted : November 20, 2020
  • Published : December 20, 2020

MOEKA HASHITANI 1 SHINHEEHAE 1 SoHee KIM 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article clarifies and compares the features of celebrities’ compliment responses at award ceremonies between Japanese and Korean. First of all, the topics of compliment are classified into belonging, appearance, ability, character, persons concerned, and work because of the possibility which there are the differences of the compliment responses depends on the topics. Secondly, the responses to compliments are divided into ‘language components’ and ‘non-language and paralanguage components’; the former is classified into affirmative, denial, and avoidance, and the latter are classified into affirmative and denial. Concerning the classification of the topics to praise. in the case of Japanese, it shows that ability>appearance>work>belonging=characeter>persons concerned, and in the case of Korean, ability>appearance>belonging>character; therefore, both in Japan and South Korea, there are the most abilities and the second most appearance. Also, as a result of the analysis of the praise response strategy, Japan had 16 affirmative strategies, 6 denials, and 14 avoidances, and South Korea had 14 affirmatives, 4 denials, and 14 avoidances, and both in Japan and South Korea, there are fewer denial strategies. Moreover, one of the reasons why many affirmative strategies are used both in Japan and Korea is that participants attend the award ceremonies because they praised their abilities and performances. Besides, the tendency of using a lot of affirmative strategies for the compliments of appearance is the effect of the change in awareness which was pointed out by the earlier work. On the other hand, the features of the celebrities’ responses to praise is that they are aware of being seen by the audiences because they use the strategies which have humor and consideration for people around them. Regarding nonverbal behavior, eye contact is used a lot by both Japanese and Korean because it seems that they show they concentrate on the others’ talks and the attitudes to try to communicate through eye contact even though they get compliments. Also, in the case of Korean, they use nodding because they try to emphasize that they concentrate on the others’ talks much as eye contact and show their emotions.

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