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Current trends and prospects of studies on Japanese grammar

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2021, (67), pp.151-168
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2021.67.151
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : December 30, 2020
  • Accepted : February 16, 2021
  • Published : March 20, 2021

Jang Kun Soo 1

1상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study collected papers on grammar from Japanese language research journals published in Korea from 2019 to 2020 and examined the papers to explore an overall trend in research. According to topics of the papers, they were divided into research on meanings, forms, and syntax of words; research on grammatical categories; comparative research on Korean and Japanese languages; and research on grammar studies in Japan, and summarized their contents and characteristics. In Korea, studies of Japanese grammar have been actively conducted especially in the field of applied linguistics that encompasses comparative studies, error analyses, and language typology, as well as in the areas of theoretical research and methodological research for interpreting grammatical phenomena. This is a valid methodological approach to researches on a second language and foreign language education. This study also found papers on various grammatical categories including comparative studies between Korean and Japanese languages based on the traditional one-to-one word correspondence and vocabulary level studies. In addition, there is a trend that the sentence level research, which is one of the typical areas of grammar research, is gradually expanding to the discourse level. This can be interpreted as a movement toward a transition from a research on grammatical phenomena to a research using grammar. Grammar is already used in other fields of research such as grammar education, error analyses, language acquisition, communication, and pragmatics. In the future, it is thought that grammar research will evolve in the direction of discourse and text level studies, and of the application of grammar to various fields.

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