기자회견 장면에서의 「いただく」「くださる」표현의 사용실태 연구 ―일본 총리의 COVID-19 관련 기자회견을 중심으로―

Abstract

This study compares and considers the actual use of the expression of “いただく” and “くださる” in press conferences on COVID-19 by former Prime Minister Abe of Japan. Although many studies have been conducted previously on the actual use of the expressions “いただく” and the expressions “くださる”, this study targets a specific discourse scene, namely a press conference. It differs from the existing research in that it is logically presented by this method and that the connected vocabulary and expressions are presented with specific frequency. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, when comparing the frequency of use of the expression “いただく” and the expression “くださる”, both of which have a meaningful correspondence in the press conference scene, the frequency of use of “いただく” was higher than that of “くださる” in all sentence patterns. “くださる” was used 73 times, compared to “いただく”, which was used about 4.3 times more with 311 cases. Second, if you look at each scene of the press conference, it can be seen that “いただく” is used more frequently in responses, while “くださる” is used in statements and questions. In particular, the frequency of use of “くださる”(41.2%) in questions was relatively high compared to “いただく”(4.2%). In addition, in terms of connected vocabulary and expressions, it was found that the rate of connecting “いただく” with “協力, 質問” is high, and “くださる” is more often connected with “聞かせる, 教える”. Third, the correlation found in the press conference scenes for the expression “いただく” shows that it appears frequently in the response “～ていただく”, or in the progress scene “お/ご～いただく,” and “～をいただく” in the response scene. Fourth, the correlation found in the press conference scene for each sentence type of expression of “くださる” shows that it appears more often in the speech scene of “～てくださる”, and “お/ご～くださる” in the questioning scene, while “～をくださる”. has never been used. Fifth, the misuse of the expressions “いただく” and “くださる” is identified in the speech scene, and the most frequent pattern of misuse was omitting “を”.