中日韓における同形二字漢語「人気」の使用状況に関する一考察

Abstract

The study of Chinese characters in China, Japan, and South Korea has always been a highly involved research field, that has been continuously focused on for decades since the early 1980s, with a large vocabulary of two character Chinese characters and significant mutual influence between the three languages. Therefore, it has been the research object of many researchers. (Among them, two-character Chinese characters have been studied by numerous researchers due to their large number of words and significant influence among the three languages.) In particular, the comparative study of Chinese and Japanese characters, including their etymology, morphology, meaning, and usage, has been widely conducted. The comparative study of Chinese characters between China, South Korea, and South Korea and Japan (Korean-Chinese and Korean-Japanese) also focuses on language acquisition and teaching methods, conducting semantic differences, misuse analysis, and other research. Among them, although there are also cases where most Chinese character words are designated as research objects, there are many studies that search for the etymology of specific Chinese character words and compare and analyze their usage. The research on “popularity” also focuses on the comparison of etymology and semantic analysis between China and Japan,(Chinese and Japanese) as well as the comparison of semantics and usage frequency between China and Japan.(Chinese and Japanese) However, the comparative analysis of the semantics of the three countries (languages) is not sufficient, and there is almost no analysis on collocations. Therefore, it is of great significance to understand the usage of 'popularity' in the three languages of China, Japan, and Korea, and to compare and analyze how it is used and what words it is used with through analysis of the corpus. By doing so, we can identify the commonalities and differences and shed light on the points to be cautious about in usage. In this paper, we pointed out the importance of paying attention to the meaning and collocation in the use of words, as the influence of homophonic characters among the three popular languages in China, Korea, and Japan is significant, but there are also many differences due to social and cultural factors.