남해안 별신굿 춤의 이원구조에 관한 기호학적 연구

Abstract

Semiotics started from Saussure, a linguist, is a western hermeneutical methodology which considers the all things as signs and interprets texts. Concerning the dances, the hermeneutical methodology considers each dancing motion as a semanteme, and that the all semanteme form a semanteme network in a whole dance, eventually expanding the network to a social semantic structure. The foundation of this analysis is in the dual structure revealed through paradigma analysis. In order to draw out semiotic dual structure of Byulshin Gut dane, this study first divided the dance into 3 structures of arms' motion, feet's motion and spatial composition, and separately classified conflicting motions in the dance. Through the analysis, this study could know that in Byulshin Gu dance, there were dual structures between person and death, life and eternity, this word and next word, earth and sky, grudge and ventilation. Among them, the largest dual structure is happened in the relationship between person and god. Also the dance clearly showed the person's purpose and justification performing the worship rite, and looking at the whole structure of dance, it could know that the Byulshin Gut dance contained the praying meaning. This well shows Byulshin Gut dance eventually has the monistic viewpoint of oriental thought. So through Bylshin Gut dance, the person and the god, the earth and the sky, and the grudge and the ventilation are interacted, so the dance eventually reveals one principle making persons to utter prayers. Byulshin Gut dance's monistic principle is well expressed in the dual structure's semiotic analysis. This analysis on dual structures will be the foundation to profoundly suggest oriental thinking's meanings contained in shamanism dances.