• #Linguistics

This study aims to clarify the characteristics of Japanese kinship terms through a contrastive analysis with Korean kinship terms, and to assist Japanese language learners in their language acquisition. Comparing the usage of kinship terms in Korean and Japanese, it was found that Japanese kinship terms are less differentiated by the speaker's gender or the recipient's lineage compared to Korean, and individual characteristics of the recipient, such as age and marital status, have a greater influence on the choice of kinship terms.