『課題別会話コーパス』から見た日本語学習者による伝聞表現の使用特徴 - 日本語母語話者との比較を通して -

Abstract

For Japanese learners, mastering reported speech expressions is essential for smooth communication, butis considered difficult due to the diversity of available expressions. This difficulty partly stems from thefact that while past studies and teaching materials have compared these expressions, they've mostlyfocused on sentence-level use, missing out on their role in broader conversations. In this study, using the"message conveying" tasks from the "Task-Based Conversation Corpus," we conducted a comparativeanalysis of the usage tendencies of reported speech expressions among Japanese learners at the discourselevel, in comparison with native Japanese speakers. After analyzing the reported speech expressions basedon their purpose of reporting, we found that Japanese learners exhibited different usage tendencies fromnative speakers, such as (1) not using them when necessary (e.g., when asking for confirmation), (2) useof deviant expressions, and (3) use of "toiwareta"(“I was told”) when conveying the content of themessage to the recipient. This underscores the need for Japanese conversation education to integrateteaching of reported speech expressions with both the content and structure of discourse.