SEMANTIC-CONTEXTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE ADJECTIVES: CORPUS APPROACH

Abstract

The article discusses Japanese adjectives that characterize a person. In accordance with the set goal, the semantic features of Japanese adjectives are identified with the use of a corpus-oriented approach. To achieve the goal of the research, theoretical materials about the corpus method of linguistic research and the concept of “adjective” are studied. A semantic-contextological analysis of Japanese adjectives describing a person is performed in the Japanese web corpus NINJAL-LWP for Tsukuba Web Corpus. In the practical part of the study, 6 adjectives have been analyzed, combined into pairs that have a similar or close meaning. The results of the studies have shown that despite the same translation into Russian or the synonymy of adjectives, words can have large differences in their use in speech.