「家族」관련 어휘의 사용실태 -国硏「ことばに関する新聞記事見出しデータベース」를 분석대상으로-

Abstract

The study considered about one side of usage of vocabularies related to KAZOKU in a written Japanese language. The subject of analyzation was ‘Headline Database of Newspaper Articles by KOKKEN’’ which contained 137,000 cases of newspaper articles. They were collected from points of view on ‘Japanese language’ and ‘Japanese language life’ from 1949 to 2007. 402 cases of newspaper articles included a word KAZOKU. Numbers of newspaper articles related to KAZOKU were generally increasing. The main topics were <family name> in 1976 and 1986, <separate surnames for married couples> in 1996. There were various topics such as <communication methods among family> and <family care> in 2001ㆍ2004ㆍ2005ㆍ2006 and 2007. According to those topics, there was a rapid increase in newspaper articles related to KAZOKU in those years. Topics about <surname>, <family conversations and methods>, <language life and education> and <family life> were 345 cases out of 402 cases. Vocabularies related to KAZOKU were classified into three groups. As a result, the first group <KAZOKU> had main indications of ‘the formation of family’ and ‘family connectedness.’ The second group <KAZOKU at the front> had a main indication of ‘family unity’. The third group <KAZOKU at the back> had main indications of ‘the size of family units’, ‘designation of family’ and ‘maintenance of warm family atmosphere’.