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Current trends and prospects of studies on Japanese pragmatics and sociolinguistics

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2021, (67), pp.53-68
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2021.67.53
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : January 11, 2021
  • Accepted : February 15, 2021
  • Published : March 20, 2021

Ro Ju Hyoun 1

1덕성여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

In this study, the trend of pragmatic theory and social linguistics research was examined, focusing on research papers published in Korea in 2019 and 2020. The results are as follows. (1) In the area of contrast studies between Korean and Japanese and the study of Japanese as a national language/interlanguage, further diverse and qualitive data were adopted for the analysis, and findings of researches focusing on functions and actual conditions were continuously accumulated. (2) The findings of mechanisms and model proposals in the field of Korean-Japanese contrastive research and the establishment of a corpus in the field of Japanese as a national language are remarkable achievements. (3) In the area of Japanese education as a heritage language, researches were conducted to survey the students’ ability to use, consciousness of, and the educational situation of Japanese as a heritage language, and were also expanded to the use and consciousness of the bilingualism of Korean residents in Japan, and further to the language policies, linguistic activities and language contact. In other words, pragmatic theory and sociolinguistic research aimed to diversify and improve the quality of analysis data, and shed light on language phenomena in conjunction with society, by expanding the subject of research and continuously accumulating actual technical achievements. However, it remains regrettable that there is only few research results produced in the area of language behavior as a mutual interaction, research focusing on factor analysis, identification of mechanisms, and model construction. We look forward to future researches in these areas.

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