Analysis of Assumption Adverbs in Japanese

Tabun, Osoraku, Moshikashitara, and Hyottoshite

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_16How to use a DOI?

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Adverb; Assumption; Contrastive

ABSTRACT

This study departs from one of the phenomena of foreign language learning. It is regarded as critical, particularly in this modern age to have a foreign language proficiency, and understanding a wide range of new vocabularies in the language being studied is undeniably one of the most fundamental aspects of learning it. However, students commonly struggle to distinguish the meaning of those diverse vocabularies in a foreign language when attempting to memorize them. The purpose of this study is to determine the similarities and differences in adverbs that express assumptions in Japanese, thus the collected data was analyzed qualitatively in addition to using the substitution technique. Based on the analysis, the assumptions adverbs namely tabun, osoraku, moshikashitara, and hyottoshite, were frequently used at the beginning of a sentence to directly indicate whether the speaker’s prediction is from their point of view or the point of view of their interlocutor as well. Furthermore, if the speaker does not clearly describe or mention a subject, the four adverbs can be used because the speaker expects their prediction to be the same as their interlocutors assumed. It was also discovered that if the subject is explicitly mentioned by the speaker, it is preferable to use self-referential adverbs, such as tabun and moshikashitara, because it emphasizes that the speaker is the one who has the guesswork or conjecture being expressed.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Azila Dinda Amalia
AU  - Juju Juangsih
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Analysis of Assumption Adverbs in Japanese
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 99
EP  - 105
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_16
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_16
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