현대일본논설에 나타난 문말 ｢ことだ｣에 관한 연구

Study of Sentences Ending with Kotoda in Contemporary Japanese Articles

This research is more meaningful than the 44 articles of contemporary Japanese literature even if the end of the sentence “Kotoda” is omitted. It investigates “Kotoda” at the end of each sentence, and finds particles, adverbs, if concurrent with frequently repeated forms and sentence‐end sentences, and I tried to clarify the relationship with the postscript. As a result of considering “assertive assertion(310 pieces)” “corresponding sentence explanation(138 pieces)” “deedy (57 pieces)” “feelings mourning. Surprise(22 pieces)” “advice(prohibition)(18 pieces)” “hearing(5 pieces)” appeared in the order. “Affirmation” refers to the speaker’s own position on the general content of society. In addition, while the “assertion” usage is mostly intervened by the speaker s personal judgment, the “committee” usage should be in the direction that the speaker should be good for the other person(listener) mainly regarding the general social content (Although it requires that it should be done, the meaning of “advice” is almost weak. At the end of the sentence, these six meanings and usages are “… (152 pieces)” and at the beginning of the sentence, “… ~ + (~ 59)”, the conjunction particle “… but … (37 pieces)” and the assumption condition “~ if, … (25 pieces)” were used.