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A contrastive Study on address terms of Konjiki Yasha and Janghanmong: focusing on person names

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2021, (68), pp.55~73
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2021.68.55
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : April 11, 2021
  • Accepted : May 25, 2021
  • Published : June 20, 2021

Park, Hyokyung 1 baek yiyun 2

1한양사이버대학교
2고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study explored the use of names in Ozaki Koyo's Konjiki Yasha(1897-1902) and its Korean adaptation Janghanmong(1913). It is the social norm in both Japanese and Korean that people avoid calling their superiors by name, and add an honorary suffix such as san or ssi to the name. However, it has been pointed out that they cannot be translated directly due to differences in usage of san and ssi. In this study, we compared san and ssi in the Japanese and Korean novels that were published in the early 20th century when these two suffixes began to be commonly used. These novels also share the same content. As a result, it was found that the names were called differently in each novel despite the same settings shared by these novels. The finding are summarized as follows. Firstly, overall, san tended to be used in more diverse situations than ssi. Secondly, the most frequently called person names were last name without the honorary suffix for Konjiki Yasha and first name without the honorary suffix for Janghanmong. Thirdly, kun which is used among men of the same generation, is rarely found in the Korean adaptation. Fourthly, Japanese address terms varied depending on solidarity, but Korean was more sensitive to power such as age. The honorific suffix san was not translated on the ‘san = ssi’ basis in the adaptation process, but was translated according to the situation and context it was used. It was also suggested that there was a change in the usage of ssi rather than that of san when compared with today's usage. Follow-up studies are needed to track changes through various literatures.

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