基于新闻语料的日本天皇敬语使用变化研究——以昭和以来刊载于《朝日新闻》上的天皇发言为考察对象

Research on the Evolution of Honorifics Used by Japanese Emperors Based on the News Corpus——Looking at the Speech of Japanese Emperors Published inAsahi Shimbun since the Showa Era

随着时间的推移和社会的变迁,日本社会的敬语使用也在发生着变化。由于敬语在日语语言及教学研究中占据着重要地位,诸多学者从不同的视角对日语敬语展开了研究,并积累了一些丰硕的成果。本文从敬语使用者的研究视角出发,选择了日本天皇的敬语使用情况为研究对象,以昭和前期、昭和后期、平成初期为时间轴,从历时的角度考察日本天皇的敬语使用变化过程。同时,结合不同时期的社会历史背景,探明天皇的敬语使用与当时社会敬语使用规律的联系,进而对影响其变化的社会因素进行简析。

Abstract The use of honorifics in Japanese society has greatly changed as times and society move on. Because of its important position in Japanese language leaming and research, scholars have conducted various studies on different aspects and achieved great success, This paper takes the perspective of speakers and studies, and focuses on how Emperors use honorifics differently over history, particularly from the earlier Shrwa and late ShSwa Eras, to the earlier Heisei Era. The research tries to identify the relationship between the honorifics used by the Emperors and the society at different times over history, and analyses the social factors that induced such cban^es.