Appearance frequency of idiomatic phrases in newspaper articles

• KITAMURA Tatsuya

  Konan University

• KAWAMURA Yoshiko

  Tokyo International University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 新聞記事における慣用表現の出現頻度の調査

Abstract

This study aims to reveal how much time and effort Japanese language learners should devote to learning idiomatic phrases, and which idiomatic phrases should be learned preferentially. We measured the frequency of use of idiomatic phrases in numerous of sentences appearing in articles from the newspapers Asahi, Mainichi, and Yomiuri. Idiomatic phrases were extracted from "Nihongo no Kan'youhyougen Jiten" (2014), written by Yoshiyuki Morita, and notational variants of these phrases were added manually. The results showed that less than one idiomatic phrase occurred in every 1,000 characters of the newspaper articles. The 30 idiomatic phrases with the highest frequency were revealed in this study.

Journal

• The journal of Japanese Language Education Methods

  The journal of Japanese Language Education Methods 22 (3), 32-33, 2016

  Japanese Language Education Methods

Keywords

• 慣用表現
• 新聞記事データベース
• 出現頻度
• 使用頻度

Details

• CRID: 1390001205780303872
• NII Article ID: 110010039469
• DOI: 10.19022/jlem.22.3_32
• DOI: 10.19022/jlem.23.1_32
• ISSN: 24239909
• ISSN: 18813968
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • NINJAL
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed