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The purpose of this study is to consider cognitive structure of statements that show aphoristic characteristics by grafting <Only with One Leaf> by Hyun Chong Jeong with cognitive poetics and semiotics and recognition represented in text. This study specifically analyzed texts using deixis of cognitive poetics and Greimas’ semiotic square. The two methods were effective in revealing structure and intention of text. Language cognitive symbol that composes the text was creating meaning with lexemes of confrontational characters. This study investigated visual effects of linguistic symbol by looking into distributional aspect of lexeme in text, and confrontational lexeme was distributed responsively by semantic paragraph. Distribution pattern of confrontational episememe was showing effective effect on generation of meaning by showing a balanced form on text. Confrontational structure of the specific episememe was ‘rise, set,’ ‘come, go,’ ‘mix, put on,’ and ‘here, there.’ Cognitive structure of text identified deixis characteristics of aphorism statement through Greimas’ Semiotic Square. This study considered in various aspects of deixis of cognitive poetics, and clearly structured unique characteristics of aphorism statement in texts by square symbols. Deixis representation of text expressed cognitive structure of coming and going here and there and far, far away by comparing things in this world with rising and falling leaves. The centrally used deixis type worked significantly in forming the semantic structure by facing spacially and visually. Lexeme that shows direct visual description on text showed cognitive structure consisting of contradictory relationship. Cognition orientation on text was perceived as cyclical aspect that can analogize circulation of creation and extinction. Cognition orientation was represented by Greimas’ semiotic square, and it was identified that the meaning of text gets expanded by synthetic deixis. Cognition orientation that perceives creation and extinction synthetically revealed a philosophical view for life by deriving episememe of truth and falsehood. In general, Hyun Chong Jeong’s poem shows characteristics of philosophical thinking, and it was identified that 「Only with One Leaf」 is strengthening the philosophical meaning using narrations that deictically nominalized life and death.

Hyun Chong Jeong, 「Only with One Leaf」, cognitive poetics, semiotics, Greimas, semiotic square model, deixis