新聞社説における外来語の使用実態に関する研究 - 2018年から2021年までの抽出調査を中心に -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the “actual use of loan words” in newspaper editorials in recent years (after 2018). Based on the results obtained from the extraction survey by newspaper editorials, we will examine the recent increase and decrease of foreign words.　In previous studies on loanwords, quantitative studies using newspapers were not so many compared to lexical studies, but it was concluded that the increasing trend of loanwords before 2010 was "remaining at a low level". ing. The subject of the survey is an editorial of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (electronic version), and the survey period is about 4 years (January 1, 2018 to October 31, 2021). The survey unit is W unit, and the original form and abbreviations such as "convenience store" and "convenience store" are treated as different words for the discrimination of homonyms. Proprietary nouns are not included in this paper. The appearance rate of loanwords in editorials increased 1.2 times each year in the first three years, and 1.1 times in the past year, albeit moderately. In particular,from 2020 to 2021, the social situation of “Covid-19” and “Tokyo Olympics” is considered to be related. Furthermore, when viewed by word type, it can be said that there is no big difference in the ratio of foreign words and hybrid words to the whole.　Since 2019, the increase in loanwords due to social conditions has been seen in the total number of words, but in the 5th edition of Sanseido's Katakana Dictionary, which was revised in 2020 for the first time in 10 years, "COVID-19" Newly added words (eg, overshoot, social distanceting, pandemic, lockdown, etc.) that are related to the above have appeared, but the appearance rate has been found to be low.