日本語若者語の特徴と持続年数に関する考察

Abstract

This article analyzes the properties and durability of young speakers’ words contained in 『The Encyclopedia of contemporary words』 from a perspective of neologism, jargons, young speakers’ words, and fashionable words. As a result, the study discovers the following 4 characteristics. 1. Vowel variations of young speakers’ words: words concerning 「mood and oral habit」most frequently emerge in their use, since this tendency is due to the characteristics that speakers of young generation have strong concerns of themselves and mental complexity. 2. The aggregate of the total years from a perspective of young speakers’ words as a subject of analysis: young speakers’ words of 2009 are predominant in use, but the frequency of emergence of each year does not show a big difference from a viewpoint of the comparison for 5 years. 3. The analysis on each part from a perspective of young speakers’ words as a subject of analysis: the most frequent part is related to「mood and oral habit」, those words of which denotes evaluation of people or negative connotation in most cases. 4. Durability of young speakers’ words: words associated with「activity」have the longest durability and words related to 「fashion」 and 「personal relationship and daily life」do not last that long. Furthermore, calculating the total years of durability of the words, it is confirmed the fact that the durability of 2.4 years is longer than 1.5 years of the precedent study by Yonekawa Akihiko