A contrastive study of closeness and operative speech level in the Japanese and Korean languages: Construction and verification of a closeness measurement scale

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770150
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: KIM Ahran 上智大学, 言語教育研究センター, 助教 (90711135)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 日韓対照言語学 / 親密度 / 待遇法 / スピーチレベル / 談話ストラテジー / RCI

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we focused upon the lack of a scale in the field of linguistics for measuring the closeness of conversation participants, and examined whether the RCI (Relationship Closeness Inventory) used in social psychology may be adopted. RCI is a model developed in the 1980s, so we conducted a survey adding new items such as the state of SNS usage. We used the Japanese and Korean languages as subjects, and thus conducted the survey in both of those countries. We felt that cultural differences may influence determination of closeness, and conducted interview surveys accordingly. In addition, we also conducted a discourse analysis in order to check whether speech level selection and discourse strategies changed depending upon closeness.

Free Research Field

日韓対照言語学