6つのジャンルにおける尊敬語の種類と語形 - 『現代日本語書き言葉均衡コーパス』を用いて -

Abstract

In this paper, Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese is used to analyze examples that appear as honorific expressions of “Kuru” in order to clarify the characteristics of the types and forms of honorific expressions in the six genres of magazines, books, Yahoo! chiebukuro, Yahoo! blogs, the Diet minutes, and public relations papers. As examples of honorific expressions, we will take up the seven types of “Mieru type”, “Ohakobi type”, “Okoshi type”, “Irassharu type”, “Irasita type”, “Oide type” and “Korareru type”. The main analysis results in this paper are as follows. “Korareru type” appears most frequently in all genres with the exception of public relations paper, accounting for around 40% of each genre. The genre in which “Mieru type” appears most frequently is the Diet minutes, and the genre in which “Okoshi type” appears most frequently is the public relations paper. The form of “O ~ da” has the most frequent use of “Okoshi type”, and the form of “O ~ ninaru” has an overwhelming use of “Mieru type”. In the six genres, about 80% of the examples of “Kite Itadaku/Kudasaru” are “Kudasaru form”, and “Itadaku form” accounts for only about 20%. At this time, both “Kudasaru form” and “Itadaku form” use “Okoshi type” most frequently. However, the ratio of the examples of “Kudasaru form” and “Itadaku form” varies greatly depending on each genre. The examples of “Kite Itadaku/Kudasaru” that appear most frequently in the six genres are “O~Kudasaru” and “O~Itadaku”.