일본 기계 관련 어휘 분석 연구　- 일본 『金型新聞』을 대상으로 -

Abstract

In the present paper, I analyze newspaper articles in Kanagata Newspaper to examine the most frequent words in the areas related to molding and machine. The result is summarized as follows. Firstly, the most frequent part-of-speech in the vocabulary in the areas related to molding and machine is nouns, which accounts for about 70% of the total, followed by verbs, adverbs, na-adjectives, and i-adjectives. Secondly, the most frequent 887 nouns account for 78.71% of the total numbers of the nouns appearing in the newspaper articles. In particular, the nouns such as kanagata ‘molding,’ kakoo ‘processing,’ gijutsu ‘technique’ are within the range of the most frequent 10 nouns, which suggests that these words are highly frequently used as technical terms in the areas related to molding and machine. Thirdly, the most frequent 101 verbs account for 84.53% of the total numbers of the verbs appearing in the newspaper articles. The most frequently used verb is suru ‘do,’ and other frequent verbs include kuwaeru ‘add,’ kezuru ‘scrape.’ Fourthly, the most frequent 50 adverbs account for 73.54% of the total numbers of the adverbs appearing in the newspaper articles. In particular, there are a number of occurrences of temporal adverbs such as kongo ‘in future,’ genzai ‘at present.’ Fifthly, the most frequent 30 na-adjectives account for 74.07% of the total numbers of the na-adjectives appearing in the newspaper articles. The most frequently used na-adjective is hitsuyoo ‘necessary,’ and other frequent na-adjectives include seemitsu ‘accurate,’ sumaato ‘smart.’ Sixthly, the most frequent 33 i-adjectives account for 74.07% of the total numbers of the i-adjectives appearing in the newspaper articles. The most frequently used i-adjective is takai ‘high,’ and other frequent i-adjectives include those denoting the size, material, and weight of objects, such as katai ‘hard,’ tsuyoi ‘strong.’