한・일 완곡 표현 고찰─ 『겨울연가』・『冬のソナタ』에 나타난 표현을 중심으로

Abstract

1. A euphemism is a pattern in which a speaker asks for a listener’s agreement, not making a conclusion. It is the speaker’s soft self󰠏assertion. Since the speaker can avoid a conflict with the listener, they can talk with psychological stability. The commonalities in Korean and Japanese euphemisms are as follows: (1) There are four types of euphemism, including ‘evasion’ ‘speaking indirectly’ ‘speaking gently’ and ‘pretentious expression,’ commonly in Korean and Japanese. (2) The ellipsis of sentence components, too, appears to be similar in Korean and Japanese. There are many co󰠏occurrences with the form of assumption, ‘If only 󰠏’ in the latter part of the conjunction of ‘󰠏󰠏인데’ 「󰠏󰠏のに」 commonly in Korean and Japanese. Euphemisms appear as various compound ones, not in a single form. (3) Euphemisms like double negative and the metaphor of the situation appear in Korean and Japanese, out of the psychology to avoid a negative expression. 2. The differences in euphemisms between Korean and Japanese are as follows: (1) There are more euphemisms in which the speaker wants the listener to recognize one’s feeling or intention through suggestion even if the core part of a sentence is omitted in Japanese than in Korean. (2) Most of the usages of the spread of range, like 「󰠏󰠏のこと、󰠏󰠏のほう」, too, appear in Japanese. (3) Like ‘지각대장’ in Korean (The king of tardiness in English)’ is translated as 「遅刻の女王」 into Japanese, ‘a metaphor of vocabulary’ appears different depending on the culture or custom. (4) 「ちょっと」 is a cushioning expression appearing in everyday conversation, which is a euphemism appearing from the consideration that flat rejection may harm the other’s mood and appears much in Japanese.