日本語の賛否を述べる意見文の文章構造 -日本人大学生と韓国人上級学習者の文段の表現特性-

Abstract

Regardless of whether in Japan or Korea, writing educating has been carried out during the first year of college education. There are many opportunities that require one to write his or her own thoughts, such as notes in classes, entry sheets of job hunting and so on. In recent years, colleges in Japan put an effort in teaching using paragraphs and techniques of writing in English; however, it is questionable whether the method to state an opinion in English is just replaced by the Japanese method. In this paper, by analyzing the regard of questioning the for and against in the Japanese language from 20 native Japanese college students and 20 Korean advanced Japanese-language learners, the structure of the sentence and “meaning paragraph”’s “control function” in an essay was made clear, and the Japanese argumentative essay teaching method is proposed. As a result of the analysis, both Japanese and Korean have more ryokatsu-gata (main idea placed at the start and end of the essay), the second on the list is bikatsu-gata (main idea at the end of the essay) for Japanese college students and tokatsu-gata (main idea placed at the start of the essay) for Korean advanced Japanese-language learners. Also in the paper, according to Sakuma (1986), the control function of meaning paragraph in this study had analyzed the appearing position and connecting relationship of every argumentative essay of the meaning paragraph from all 5 types which is “topic presented”, “assertion demonstration”, “ explanation of reason”, “refute concession”, and “opinion commentary”. When writing opinions of questioning the for and against, ryokatsu-gata, bikatsu-gata and tokatsu-gata were derived from the basic structure of the sentence style. From the result of this paper, in the argumentative essay for questioning the for and against, it is often written in ryokatsu-gata. Therefore, it is problematic to teach English writing method emphasizing tokatsu-gata. When teaching the argumentative essay for questioning the for and against, ryokatsu-gata, bikatsu-gata, and tokatsu-gata were the 3 types of sentence style that were used the most, and the unity of meaning paragraph and the connection relationship have to be taken into consideration when the method of assembling a sentence structure is taught.