한일 이성간 모어화자끼리의 첫 대면 대화 연구－화제 내용을 중심으로－

Abstract

As a result of analyzing the dialogue at the first encounter (10 minutes) between opposite gender native speakers from Korea and Japan, the characteristics owing to the cultural differences between the two countries and the gender differences have been found. In the case of the contents of topic, the Koreans recorded higher levels of conversation time and number of topic suggestions with regard to ‘university, personal details, work, participation in studies, and career’ whereas the Japanese recorded higher levels of conversation time and number of topic suggestions with regard to ‘work, residence, personal details, overseas travel, and university’. When it comes to the suggestion of dialogue topics, Korean men suggested twice more number of topics compared to Korean women whereas Japanese women suggested more topics than Japanese men. As a result of analyzing the method of suggesting topics into ‘the question’ asking the opponent about his or her opinion and ‘self-presentation(self-disclosure)’ which suggests the information about oneself, Koreans and Japanese shared the common point of suggesting topics by asking questions. When it comes to the gender differences, the way of suggesting conversation topics differed in terms of gender in Korea and Japan in the sense that Korean men suggested topics by ‘questions’ whereas Japanese women suggested topics by ‘questions’. When it comes to the specific items of ‘question’, Koreans and Japanese differed since Koreans asked more ‘direct questions’ whereas Japanese asked ‘questions of terminal blur(mid-end type)’ and ‘asking for agreement questions’. There were also the differences between Korea and Japan in terms of the specific items of ‘self-presentation’. Koreans suggested topics by ‘opinions and explaining situations’ whereas Japanese suggested topics by ‘personal details, feelings, and memories’. When the examination was conducted based on gender differences, Korean men had more than twice number of topic suggestions by ‘questions’ and ‘self-presentation’ than Korean women. Onthe contrary, Japanese differed in the sense that Japanese women suggested topics by ‘questions’ and Japanese men suggested topics by ‘self-presentation’.