Influences of acceptability judgments and personality traits on the usage of address-terms for Japanese and Korean language learners.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520638
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Yamaguchi Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: LIM Hyunjung 山口県立大学, 国際文化学部, 教授 (30412290)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAMAOKA Katsuo 名古屋大学, 大学院国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (70227263)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日韓両言語学習者 / 呼称使用ストラテジー / 容認性判断 / 性格特性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is verifying acceptability judgements of native speakers for usage of address-terms by Japanese and Korean language learners, and clarifying how individual personality traits influence those acceptability judgments. The results revealed that in the contact situation with non-native speakers, there were transfers of their native language norms and deviations from their target language norms, but also learners’ overuse of the specific address-terms to show considerations toward others. The overuse is more apparent with Japanese learners than Korean learners. The results also indicated that native speakers judge the learners’ overuse of their target language norms tolerantly. There were partially influences on personality traits.

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人文学