장신구 해석의 기호학적 접근방법에 관한 연구

A Study on the Semiotics Approach in the Ornament Interpretation

From the perspective of communication and convey of meanings, ornaments serve for like language. In a sense that ornaments are texts involving non-language sign, semiotics would be a suitable approach interpretation of ornaments. This study used sign traidoficon, index, symbol for the analysis of ornaments, following C.S.Peirce's sign theory. The research method used is a content analysis of literature and ornaments work books. For the semiotics approach to ornaments, this study focuses on the typology of traditional and contemporary ornaments. Traditional ornaments include earrings in the three kingdoms period and norigae in chosen period. Earrings in the three kingdoms period are classified into simple form, verticality form, inverted triangle form, and mixed form, from the meaning of plastic art as signifier. Norigae in the chosen are classified into meaning of fortune, fecundity, love of husband and wife, long life and evil expellness, from the interpretation of subject forms. The comparison between contemporary and traditional ornaments reveals the iconic similary, and the meaning of contemporary ornaments are inherited from previous history and culture. Traditional meaning of indexical sign and symbolic sign arc also reinterpreted from the view of cultural communion in history. Results of the analysis reveal that traditional plastic art can be interpreted from the lense of modernity, and meanings are identical under the umbrellar of cultural communi on.