일본어 모어화자의 외래어 사용 실태와 한국인 학습자의 인식 분석

Abstract

In this paper, I extract loanwords that appear in the daily conversations of native Japanese speakers, based on the CEJC (Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversations). I further classify these loanwords according to semantic fields using a classification vocabulary list and compare them with loanwords found in newspapers. In addition, I report the results of a questionnaire survey that was conducted to examine Korean learners’ perceptions of loanwords in Japanese. Only 27 loanwords appeared in the top 100 most frequent loanwords in daily conversations and those in newspapers. Whilst previous studies have shown that loanwords in newspapers are most commonly related to “abstract relations,” the results of this survey indicate that loanwords in daily conversations are most frequently related to “products and tools.” In particular, most of them fall under the categories of “food” (1.43) and “tools” (1.45). These are followed by the category “daily life” (1.33), which corresponds to “human activity – mental and behavioural activities.” In a questionnaire designed to explore learners’ perceptions of loanwords, 70% or more of participants responded that the number of loanwords in Japanese is increasing. The most challenging aspect of loanwords for language learners, according to their responses, is the difference in pronunciation between the loanwords and their original forms. On the other hand, the questions regarding the semantic distinction between loanwords and semantically similar Sino- Japanese words revealed that many learners struggle to make accurate distinctions.