자연대화에 나타나는 한일 양국의 화제도입 양상 –인간관계요인을 중심으로–

Abstract

In this study, the use of topic initiations and the interrelationships between topic initiations and speech-level, and between topic initiations and hedge in Japanese and Korean natural conversations were analyzed. The results are summarized as follows. At first, in the case of conversations between the first meeting people, both in Korean and Japanese, the frequency of topic initiations was almost same and topic was initiated in inverse proportion to the age of interlocutors regardless of subjects’ sex. On the other hand, the use of speech-level and hedge in case of the topic initiations showed different tendency in Korean and Japanese ; The Korean have a tendency to show the considerations for interlocutors by manipulating speech-level, although the Japanese have a tendency to show the considerations for interlocutors by manipulating hedge. Then, the frequency of topic initiations in conversations between the first meeting people was higher than that in conversations between friends. On the other hand, in the case of topic initiations, a co-occurrence rate with the utterance without politeness markers(speech-level) was the highest in japanese female conversations, and the percentage of hedge in Japanese was higher than that in Korean regardless of subjects’ degree of intimacy(conversations between the first meeting people and conversations between friends). In other words, it is indicated that Japanese have a relatively strong aspect of strategic language use to weaken predominance-affiliated indication in topic initiations by mitigating utterances by using the utterance without politeness markers or hedge.