紀行文의 揷入詩 硏究

Abstract

One of the characteristics of accounts of travel is that a text is inclined to be composed in a way of combining or mixing prose and verse. Focusing on this point, this article intends basically to explore various functions of inserted poems into travels with Jacobsonian model on communication. Further, this article is interested also in examining the aspect of how the prose and verse are harmonious with each other, thereby creating aesthetic characteristic of the travels. Jacobson built a theoritical frame on communication by suggesting 6 constitutive factors in any speech event --addresser, addressee, message, context, contact, and code--, and argued that depending on which factor is particularly emphasized, dominant function is differentiated. According to this communication model, when the focus is on the addresser the emotive or expressive function comes to be dominant, when on the addressee the conative function is dominant. Moreover, when the language orients toward the context, the referential function comes to foreground, and toward the contact the phatic function does to foreground. Given that the travels fall into three categories of excursion travels, business travels, and pilgrimage travels, Jacobson’s model is effectively applicable to explain the function of inserted poems into each type of travels. In case of the poems of the pilgrimage travels, whose writers insert their own poems into the prose, the emotive function would be dominant, and in case of the excursion travels, whose writers insert other poets’ poems into the prose, the referential function comes to the fore. In addition, in case of business travels, most of which were composed by Choson envoys dispatched to Myung and Cheong Dynasty of China, the phatic function of the poems are dominantly foregrounded.