「まあ」の意味と機能 : 出現条件から考える

The Meaning and Function of “Ma”: Focusing on its appearance condition

柳澤 浩哉

馮 文彦

広島大学大学院人間社会科学研究科紀要. 教育学研究

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. Studies in education

[ISSN] 2436-0333

[NCID] AA12909086

“Ma” is a word that often appears in Japanese conversation, but it is difficult to clarify its meaning and function. We have collected 259 “ma” examples from natural Japanese conversation, but the meaning or function of most of them cannot be described. Therefore, we thought that it was impossible to directly grasp the meaning and function of “ma”, that the only way to understand “ma” is to clarify the conditions that can exist in a conversation. And we expected the condition as follows: “ma” can appear when a speaker feels superiority. We verified the effectiveness of this hypothesis on the condition from two directions. One direction is effectiveness for usage, we showed that the hypothesis can explain the various usage of “ma”. The other is quantitative verification using examples of natural conversation. Based on these considerations, this paper draws the following conclusion. (A) “Ma” is the word that has no meaning and only the appearance condition. (B) Feeling superiority is the condition for the appearance of “ma”.

“Ma”

filler

Japanese conversation

appearance hypothesis

「まあ」

フィラー

日本語会話

出現条件

日本語

広島大学大学院人間社会科学研究科

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[ISSN] 2436-0333

[NCID] AA12909086