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A Contrastive Study on Perspective and Expressions in Japanese and Korean

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2024, (81), pp.231-247
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2024.81.231
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : July 15, 2024
  • Accepted : August 26, 2024
  • Published : September 20, 2024

Heo, Myeong-Ja 1

1名古屋大学人文学研究科

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ABSTRACT

In this study, we conducted a storytelling survey targeting native Japanese speakers and Korean learners of Japanese and analyzed their perspectives and syntactic expressions. As a result, we found that native Japanese speakers tend to describe stories from the speaker's perspective and, therefore, consider themselves the protagonists. Native Japanese speakers used the passive voice, -te kuru, and give-and-receive expressions to recognize and express the protagonist's perspective. On the other hand, Korean learners used the passive voice and give-and-receive expressions less than native Japanese speakers to recognize the protagonist's perspective. In addition, Korean learners of Japanese expressed descriptions without a perspective, redundant descriptions, or descriptions from a third-person perspective, and these Japanese expressions were sometimes unnatural or grammatically incorrect. Korean does not have a structure equivalent to the Japanese passive voice and -kuru, and it was analyzed that this affects Japanese learning. When teaching passive sentences in Japanese, instruction on time is necessary. Not understanding the characteristics of time recognition and expression form may lead to grammatically incorrect or unnatural expressions in Japanese.

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