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Cognitive Stylistics with Ambivalent Énoncé in “Until the Peonies Bloom” of Kim Young-rang---Focused on Application of Greimas Semiotic Square---

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2025, (129), pp.109~138
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : January 31, 2025
  • Accepted : March 26, 2025
  • Published : March 31, 2025

So Pil Gyun 1

1전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aimed to clarify the semantic process of Kim Young-rang’s “Until Peonies Bloom” from a cognitive semiotic perspective. In order to reveal the unique aesthetic structure of the text, which is the canon of modern Korean poetry aestheticism, it is necessary to examine it in a cognitive and semiotic manner. The text’s linguistic cognitive signs reveal cognitive meanings that interact dualistically. The text has more negative linguistic signs than positive linguistic signs. While negative meanings are dominant in the semantic context, the will and tenacity to pursue positive meanings are strengthened. From a cognitive poetics perspective, the concepts of action chain, oxymoron, and figure-ground were used to analyze it from various angles. Texture, a combination of psychological and formal qualities of text, exhibits a unique ambivalent semanticization. The reader's reading sense, which sees through the duality and contradiction of existence, grasps the ambivalent semantic structure of the figure and ground in the process of reading the text. From a semiotics perspective, the cognitive structure of the ambivalent utterance of the text was expressed by applying Greimas’s semiotic square. The semanticization of the semiotic square clearly shows the figure meaning and the stylistic ground meaning of the text as a semantic structure that connects the surface and the depth. This confirms once again that the reader can read the semantic structure of the text simultaneously and differently.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.