SNS 일본어의 「확장」 「심화」 「융합」 사례를 통해 본 한국사회의 이문화 수용

Abstract

In this article, I analyse the examples of Japanese expressions in social media and their contact with Korean expressions to examine Korean society’s acceptance of different cultures. The present study reveals that the social media varieties of Japanese are characterised as ‘expansion’, ‘deepening’, and ‘integration’. The primary findings are summed up as follows. First, Korean mainly borrowed Japanese nouns in the past, but in social media, not only nouns but also adjectives and verbs are borrowed. Also, Japanese expressions are used at a sentential or discourse level, rather than a word level. In this sense, a certain form of linguistic ‘expansion’ can be detected in the social media varieties of Japanese. Further, thanks to the hashtag-based system that allows the users to share results and to search for them, not only information providers but also searchers have greatly improved their social media literacy using their Japanese proficiency or Japanese expressions. Second, in the areas relating to ‘seafood’, ‘alcohol drink’, and ‘subculture’, a ‘deepened’ usage property of Japanese is observed. Finally, on social media platforms, semantic fusions between Korean and Japanese expressions are observed in some cases. Morphologically, these cases can be classified into the ‘parallel combination’ type and the ‘integrated fusional combination’ type. In some examples, fusions led to meaning changes.