日本語学習におけるオノマトペ : 邦画教材に使用されるオノマトペの学習段階別分類と考察

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There are about 2000 Japanese onomatopoeia printed in dictionaries, but some have not been included. There are also many variants. Therefore, it takes time for students, learning Japanese as a second language, to master onomatopoeia, even though it is used very often in our daily life. One of the best ways to learn onomatopoeia is through using a movie as teaching material, since it has visual and auditory scenes. Japanese onomatopoeia in movies used at the intermediate/advanced and superadvanced levels are examined. Onomatopoeia introduced in beginning classes has a higher lexical level as there are no variants. The number of words used are few but are used repeatedly. Onomatopoeia introduced in intermediate and advanced classes has a higher onomatopoeic level and often there are variants. There is a great number of words, but each is only used a few times. Such differences between learning stages are very clear. Onomatopoeia is often to describe appearance. A few compound verbals are used (e.g., adding "-suru" and "-tsuku" to onomatopoeia). This indicates that native speakers of Japanese tend to choose words of higher onomatopoeic level rather than ones of higher lexical level. Thus, to acquire onomatopoeia is one of the very important parts of mastering the Japanese language.
2009-03-31