Social Meaning Analysis of Costume Expressed in the Korean Novel, 『HONPUL』

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purposes of this study were to analyze the meaning of clothing described in a novel. 『HONPUL』and to identify certain new extended meanings created by costumes expressed in them.
For these purposes, a Text Linguistics Method was proposed and used to analyze
costume meanings expressed in the world.
The Social Meaning was only considered to analyze 『HONPUL』in this study.
Results and conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows.
The Social Meaning was only considered to analyze 『HONPUL』in this study.
Results and conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows.
The Social meaning could be calssified as characters, background, and Situatuon.
First of all, the recognizable meaning for Charactres from the costumes were
1) Social status : Nobleman, Humbleman, Concubine, Maltreated Wife, Young Widow. 2) Nationally Race : Choson's person, Chinese, Japanese, Chinanized Choson's person. 3) Grade of Enlightenment(Conservative of Civilized person) 4) Occupation : Student, Buddhist Monk, Wild Goose Carrier, Palanquin Bearer, Conductor, Teacher 5) Economics : Rich Man, The Poor 6) Age: Child Middle, Aged Person, Old Man. 7) Gender : Most of gender menanings were shown together with the other meanings. But they were not prior to others.
Second, the recognizable Background meanings from the costumes were : 1) The
Period : Koguryo, Paekche, Shilla, Koryo, Chosun, Colonial Period(1910-1945). 2) Region : Cheonla-do, Bongchon and Manjoo in China. 3) Season : spring fall, summer, winter.
Third, the recognizable Situation meanings from the costumes were:
1) Wedding ceremony. 2) Mourning ceremony. 3) Coming-of- age ceremony for female and 4) War, Even though the costumes were expressed same, they had lots of different social meanings.
It was the importance of this study that a new method and possibility were presented for analyzing the extended meanings of costume which were created through the context(backfround, linguistic style etc.)as well as analyzing the fundamental meaning of costumes expressed in the novel text.