Female expressions in Japanese language has been condidered as one of the characteristic features. It has been developed since medieval times and even in modern Japanese, the system of female expressions occur in specific words, in grammatical level, ...
Female expressions in Japanese language has been condidered as one of the characteristic features. It has been developed since medieval times and even in modern Japanese, the system of female expressions occur in specific words, in grammatical level, as well as in stylistic level. This, so called The Category of Female Expression dosen't matter in Korean, therefore Korean learners of Japanese, often face a great difficulties in their study of Japanese, and also teachers of Japanese feel difficulties to instruct the different system of language use in co-ed classes.
It is considered to be a kind of expressions of social stratification in language use. The honorific system of Japanse shows a gradual tendency of simplification, yet honorific systems in commercial level, women's speech levels and their expressions which contain O+adjective, O+adverbs often be crticized.
I In this study, the writer trys to review the overall factors of female expression system first, then summarize each level. By clarifying male expressions in words, in sentences, learners may avoid their errors in conversations and in compositions.
It is said that women are likely to use more honorific expressions than men regardless of their attitudes of honor toward their hearer.
「-deyo, -de, -dene」 occur mainly in female expressions.
Sentence ending particles 「-zo, ze, na」 are likely to be occured in men's expressions, so they correspond to special words of subject, like, 「boku, ore, omae, etc.」, 「-wa, wayo, wane, wayone, koto, kotoyo, no, noyo, none, na」 mainly occurs in female expressions.
In Japanese, as well as in Korean, subject or object sometimes doesn't show in sentence. Still hears or readers are able to understand whether the noun clause are male or female. This is one of the specific character of Japanese.