2007개정 교육과정 고등학교 일본어 교과서 Ⅰ·Ⅱ에서의 종조사 ‘ね’와 ‘よ’

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the final particles ne and yo, which are attached to the final part of a sentence in Japanese, in the context of the high school textbooks of Japanese I and II. Furthermore, in order to conduct comparative work on the use of these particles in actual conversations, we analyze conversational parts of the animation Mimi-o Sumaseba, especially semantic aspects of those sentences containing ne or yo. As a result of our analyses, it is revealed that the particle ne most frequently expresses the speaker’s agreement with the hearer or the hearer’s statements in the textbook I, and it most frequently expresses “moderate statements” in the textbook II. The most frequent use of the particle yo in the two textbooks is concerned with “the use of information-conveying or the communication of the speaker’s judgments, statements, and emotions.” This result is in congruence with the analysis of animations, according to which the particle ne is most frequently employed as the means of “encouraging the hearer to agree with the speaker or expressing the speaker’s agreement with the hearer’s statement.” As for the particle yo, its most frequent use is concerned with “the use of information-conveying or the communication of the speaker’s judgments, statements, and emotions.”