KSL日本語母語話者の謝罪行為に関する意識-韓国人の謝罪行為に対するイメージを中心に-

Abstract

So far, studies on the apology act, controlled studies of apology act of Japan and other countries and research that focus on unique apology expression of Japan have been made mainly. But, this paper is one that has been studied with a focus on the act of apology from the point of view of cross-cultural contact. The survey was conducted on July to August in 2013. Those questioned are 131 Japanese native speakers using KSL(Korean as a Second Language), living in Seoul. I questioned that they have what image of apology acts of Korean who they had contacted with. Then, I also investigated the image of apology act of Japanese in Japan and I compared this two. From this, I could know the image of apology act of Korean and understand it more clearly. As a result, KSL Japanese native speakers answered the questionnaire that there are big difference in the attitude of apology and the presence or absence of apology act as the way of apology of Japanese and Korean. In other words, they felt that Koreans tend not to apologize for their little fault, even if they know that they have the responsibility for that fault. However, they felt that Japanese people tend to apologize for their little fault, even if they know that they have no responsibility for that. Also, they answered that the attitude of apology act of Koreans is rude, but the attitude of apology act of the Japanese is polite and courteous. I assumed that the cause of that result came from the difference in the use of boilerplate of apology in both countries. So, I surveyed in addition about using of apology boilerplate of both countries. As a result, KSL native Japanese speakers got very negative impression of the using stylized apology representation of Korean. On the other hand, they answered that they had positive evaluation about using apology boilerplate of Japanese. Further, it is necessary to pay attention that more than 40% of those questioned answered Korean people have to learn the way of apology from Japanese. In addition, it was found that KSL native Japanese speakers got negative impression of which Korean use the way of more dishonest apology than Japanese, because the impression of apology boilerplate had affected the overall image of apology act. Consequently, it could be expected that KSL Japanese native speakers could experience many troubles about the apology act, when they are in contact with the Korean society.