earticle

영어

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the usage intention of prolonged sound marks ‘ー’, ‘~’, ‘…’ in Japanese internet-based language. One of the most interesting features of Japanese internet-based language is frequent use of prolonged sound marks. But it have been not clarified the usage intention of prolonged sound marks in Japanese Internet-based language. Thus we carried out a questionnaire survey which was targeting at ten Japanese native speakers from teens to fifties. As a result, we clarified the usage intentions of prolonged sound marks have unique features. The usage intention of ‘ー’ is ‘softening nuances of sentences’, ‘~’ is ‘expression of amiableness’, and ‘…’ is ‘worrying or deep thinking or disappointing’. we also clarified the tendency of sequenced use of prolonged sound mark which is hardly recognized former.