When communication happens between people with different cultural backgrounds, they can take the wrong intention Therefore, it is necessary to understand the cultural differences to prevent misunderstanding between each other In this study, I found there are linguistic actions of cultural elements such as the ambiguity of the Japanese attitude, self discloser, Honne and ..
This study was conducted to analyze the acquisition process for the production of special morae in Japanese by Korean learners, based on conversational speeches in the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) The errors in pronouncing the special morae (Q geminate consonants, N syllable final nasal, R long vowels) observed in the articulation by Korean learners were ana..
This study is based on two preceding studies on the usage of conjunctive particle TO in spoken language (Ito, 2007) and in written language (Ito, 2006), and aimed to verify the validity of example sentences in Japanese language education textbooks (The Textbooks), focusing on example sentences of the usage of TO By comparing the characteristics of TO whic..
This study presents the results of a survey on Japanese Chinese characters learning by JLPT level 3 and 4 learners of Japanese language who are at the beginner stage of Chinese character learning When asked about the use Chinese characters of Korean, only 64 out of the total 246 respondents(260%) are found to currently use them, and 190(772%) are found to have the experien..
This paper analyzes the use of and the perception on the Japanese loan words in four different age groups including teens, 20s to 30s, 40s to 50s, and 60s to 70s The exposure to the remaining Japanese loans is high to the age groups of 40s to 50s, and 60s to 70s while it is low in the teens All age groups are frequently exposed to the food-related loan words It is also observed t..
This paper is intended to clarify the issue of educational values on Izus Dancer (Izuno Odoriko) in Japanese high school language textbook, which has been published by Daishukan publishing company This paper finds some interesting results, by investigating the internal and external elements of the reason why the modify original version of Izus Dancer(Izuno Odor..
The thesis investigated Ogawa Mimei``s view of war through his former literary works, considering Bokumo Sensoni kunda(Ҫ)as the beginning of his cooperative side of the war The results of the study showed the following two characteristics First, the characters of the novel are divided into Men in Power, the Provocateur, the Soldier, and the General ..
The purpose of this study is to investigate the origin of how Haigaku, or frames that preserve Haiku poems, were consecrated in temples or shrines The exploration started with Waka, since the traditional Japanese poetry developed in the order of Waka, Renga, and Haiku Buddhism terminology has a word Horaku, which refers to reciting the scriptures or consecrating artistic ..
The purpose of the paper is to explore the viability of employing Speech Act Phrase structure to explain -kes kath-ta constructions in Korean Based on the argument that interfacing between syntax and conversational pragmatics is established through a functional predicative structure which is projected through the syntacticization of speech act features, we suggest th..
In possessor agreement constructions in Korean, where a possessor and its possessum show case agreement, the possessum seems to resist extraction Interestingly, such restriction disappears in elliptical contexts and right dislocation This paper focuses on the issue, presence or absence of the restriction possessum movement shows Cho (2007) suggests that the movement asy..
The Korean 3rd person pronoun ku, along with kunye, is treated as an exotic element in Korean since they are very different from other 3rd person pronouns in their forms and usages In fact, one might be reluctant to include them in the Korean pronominal system due to their heterogeneity However, since those pronouns have stable usages and an established status especially in ..
The purpose of this paper is to confirm that the syntactic structures of morphological causative constructions should be derived by considering the properties of the verb bases such as the transitive verb bases and the intransitive verb bases according to Son (2006) This means that the causee in the constructions may be an agent, depending on the verb base types mentioned ab..
The aim of the paper is to examine the Korean ditransitive verb juda and deulida in terms of lexical aspect Even though it is considered to be one of the inherent properties of verbs, the lexical aspect of a verb can be changed according to features of arguments and thematic relations of arguments in the sentence The verb juda can function as achievement aspect, active achieve..