「夜」と「밤(bam)」に関する一考察

Abstract

This study investigates the similarities and differences between ‘yoru’ and ‘bam’ through two methods. One is to examine the temporal range of the use in the two languages by extracting the ‘yoru X o’clock’ and the ‘bam X o’clock’ used in the newspapers of the two countries, and the other conducts a questionnaire survey of 400 people to see if there is any difference in time perception between ‘yoru’ and ‘bam’. As a result, the time range of ‘yoru X o’clock’ and ‘bam X o’clock’ used in the newspaper reveals that Japanese uses it as from ‘yoru 6 o’clock’ to the range of ‘yoru 12 o’clock’, and that Korean uses it, although a few cases, as a very wide range of from 5:00 pm to 2:00 am. In the case of Korean newspapers, both ‘evening’ and ‘night’ are used for the range between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm. With regards to the range of recognition time of ‘yoru’ and ‘bam’, 99% of Japanese perceive it as between 6 and 9 o’clock, whereas 94% of Koreans perceive it as between 8 and 10 o’clock, and the most common time zone is 8 o’clock. In both countries, the number of perople who have answered the end time of ‘yoru’ and ‘bam’ as 12 o’clock is the most. Among 176 Japanese (44% of the total) and 152 Koreans (38% of the total) the number of people who perceive the end of night as after 4 o’clock is 38 Japanese (9.5% of the total) and 96 Koreans (24% of the total), which indicates that Koreans perceive the end of ‘bam’ to be very late.