Japanese Idioms Research Articles

コミュニケーションからみた「剰余」の声—日本語の慣用句「口をとがらせる」「口をゆがめる」とその周辺—

コミュニケーションからみた「剰余」の声—日本語の慣用句「口をとがらせる」「口をゆがめる」とその周辺—

Contrastive Study on Korean and Japanese Idioms Associated with Human Body Vocabulary: Focusing on Emotional and Psychological Expressions

Contrastive Study on Korean and Japanese Idioms Associated with Human Body Vocabulary: Focusing on Emotional and Psychological Expressions

관용표현 ｢손을 대다｣에 관한 고찰 - 일본어와의 대조를 통한 의미 분류를 중심으로 -

관용표현 ｢손을 대다｣에 관한 고찰 - 일본어와의 대조를 통한 의미 분류를 중심으로 -

Conceptualization of Anger in Korean and Japanese Idioms

Conceptualization of Anger in Korean and Japanese Idioms

A Study of Japanese Idioms focusing on “Hands (手)”

A Study of Japanese Idioms focusing on “Hands (手)”

Analisis Makna Kanyouku yang Menggunakan Kanji Koshi dalam Kodansha’s Dictionary of Basic Japanese Idioms

Idiom is quite interesting to discuss since it contains a lot of connotations. This study examined the meaning of kanyouku (idiom) which used koshi (eye) kanji in Kodansha’s Dictionary of Basic Japanese Idioms. The method used in this study was library research by collecting data from Kodansha’s Dictionary of Basic Japanese Idioms. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent the use of koshi (hips) in the Japanese idiom was. After analyzing the idiom that uses koshi (hips), the research concludes that the meaning contained in the idiom was connotations.

On Characteristics and Restrictions of Japanese Verb Idioms

On Characteristics and Restrictions of Japanese Verb Idioms

A Study on The Peculiar Vocabularies of Japanese Idioms

A Study on The Peculiar Vocabularies of Japanese Idioms

The Origin and Denomination of Japanese Idioms

The Origin and Denomination of Japanese Idioms

Detecting Japanese idioms with a linguistically rich dictionary

Detecting idioms in a sentence is important to sentence understanding. This paper discusses the linguistic knowledge for idiom detection. The challenges are that idioms can be ambiguous between literal and idiomatic meanings, and that they can be “transformed” when expressed in a sentence. However, there has been little research on Japanese idiom detection with its ambiguity and transformations taken into account. We propose a set of linguistic knowledge for idiom detection that is implemented in an idiom dictionary. We evaluated the linguistic knowledge by measuring the performance of an idiom detector that exploits the dictionary. As a result, more than 90% of the idioms are detected with 90% accuracy.

Effects of self-touching behavior on the performance of lexical retrieval

In this study, effects of self-touching behavior on the performance of lexical retrieval were investigated. In Experiment 1, 52 women were required to retrieve Japanese idioms, and to recall them approximately 2 minutes after the retrieval. The participants were randomly assigned into two groups; in one group, they were tested with the restriction of their hand movement, whereas in the other group, they were allowed to move their hands freely. Results revealed that when the movement was restricted, their performance in the retrieval task was significantly deteriorated. In Experiment 2, after the presentation of tape-recorded verbal stimuli, 26 women were required to recall them either with an interval of 2 minutes or with an interval of 2 weeks. The self-touching behavior was found to occur more often when the recall was performed with the interval of 2 weeks than when it took place immediately after the stimulus presentation. Thus self-touching is considered to serve as a cue to retrieve information stored in the long term memory.

Comprehension of idiomatic expressions in Japanese--auditory and visual presentations.

This study reports on the auditory and visual comprehension of Japanese idioms having both literal and figurative meanings. Experiment I conducted the rating of the semantic distance between the two meanings. Experiment II investigated the difference of comprehension between semantically far and close idioms. Here the materials are presented in isolation both auditorily and visually. Experiment III conducted the same investigation as Experiment II, except that idioms were presented embedded in literally and figuratively induced contexts. Experiment IV reinvestigated the findings obtained from the previous experiments. The results of these experiments show that in isolation visual presentation precedes auditory presentation, and that both in the auditory and visual presentations semantically for idioms are comprehended more accurately than semantically close idioms.