Implication in first person pronouns as expression of youthfulness : Difference of the implication to each social group

ワカモノ ラシサ ノ ヒョウシュツ トシテ ノ イチニンショウ ヘノ イミヅケ シュウダン ニ オウジタ イミヅケ ノ チガイ

オオワダ, トモフミ

Owada, Tomofumi

下斗米, 淳

シモトマイ, アツシ

Shimotomai, Atsushi

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

若者らしさ

一人称

社会的カテゴリ

集団同一視

young people

youthfulness

first person pronouns

social categories

group identifications

This study was conducted to examine how the effect of group identification in the group that could be the base to construct social identity of young people influenced expressions of their youthfulness in such a group. On this occasion, the implication in the first person pronouns they used in such a group was put as the dimensions of expressions of their youthfulness. As a result of investigation for 91 vocational school students, the level of group identification had an influence on the level of implication, especially affection, in the first person pronouns they used. Thus, this finding suggested the possibility that the tendency of young people which apprehended their youthfulness as more positive and more approval trait functioned as the source for assimilation to their category and for later construction of their social identity.

下斗米, 淳