相互作用における謝罪行動の韓日対照研究 –韓日男女母語話者の使用傾向を中心に–

Abstract

The present study aimed to compare the similarity and difference of ‘Apologetic behaviors’ in interaction, using 64 conversations between college friends of Korean male and female native speakers and Japanese male and female native speakers, respectively. Both Japanese and Korean male and female native speakers that are obliged to apologize mainly used ‘utterances of situational explanation, apology, accountability and/or interpersonal consideration’ while those worthy apology mainly used ‘utterances of situation confirmation, blame, concession and/or problem solving’. In detail, Korean native speakers who have to apologize mainly used ‘utterances of mistake adjustment’. In apologetic interaction, in addition, Japanese male native speakers more used ‘utterances of situational explanation’ and ‘utterances of blame’ than Japanese female native speakers while Japanese female native speakers more used ‘utterances of apology and interpersonal consideration’ than Japanese male native speakers. In the meantime, Korean male native speakers showed apologetic interaction of using more ‘utterances of accountability’ and ‘utterances of blame’ than Korean female native speakers while Korean female native speakers more used ‘utterances of situation explanation and/or interpersonal consideration’ and ‘utterances of concession’ than Korean male native speakers. Particularly, Korean female native speakers used ‘utterances of mistake adjustment’ very often by proposing an alternative, so they had more conversations that accept apology. That is, it was found that females had tendency to more use considerate utterances for the other party’s face while males tended to use utterances of hurting the other party’s face more.