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Elderly Role Language in a Japanese Comic: Silver Kamuy Versus Golden Kamuy
Dalarna University, School of Humanities and Media Studies, Japanese.
2020 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Elderly male role language is defined by Kinsui, one of the leading scholars in the field of Japanese role language, as being words that convey to the reader that a character is an old male. This study compared the vocabulary and phrase changes in the dialog of a single volume of the Japanese comic called Golden Kamuy by Noda, that uses normal role language, with a rewritten and redrawn version called Silver Kamuy by the same author, that uses elderly male language. This study charted and compared the word changes between Golden and Silver Kamuy to both Kinsui's vocabulary framework of elderly and elderly doctor language and to women's language. The purpose was to investigate if Kinsui's framework can be applied to Silver Kamuy, to see which words could be used to further improve Kinsui's framework, and to see which words could help constitute an elderly female language. The result was that 282 instances (130 unique) of changed dialog were collected from 101 pages of manga, of which 28 (15 unique) were spoken by a female character. The changed dialogs were divided into 10 different categories. The data was used to expand the elderly language framework and propose the new categories of elderly female role language and visual elderly role language.

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2020.
Keywords [en]
Role Language, Japanese
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Languages and Literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-35914OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-35914DiVA, id: diva2:1523723
Available from: 2021-01-29 Created: 2021-01-29

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