The purpose of this study is to facilitate the visualization of the Arirang world and to analyze the symbolism of Korean culture contained in the lexicon or vocabulary forming the Arirang lyrics.
To reach this aim, Arirang lyrics scattered domestic...
The purpose of this study is to facilitate the visualization of the Arirang world and to analyze the symbolism of Korean culture contained in the lexicon or vocabulary forming the Arirang lyrics.
To reach this aim, Arirang lyrics scattered domestically and abroad were gathered and a volume of 13,138 lines of Arirang lyrics corpus that enable expansion were constructed. Then, a lexicon search engine was devised using Cygwin and VBA and this search engine was used as an analytical tool to sum up the vast volume of Arirang lyrics corpus into approximately 2,000 words to enable better examination, reproducing a balanced miniature version of Arirang. The lexical groups contracted from these processes were rearranged according to adjoined extensions. These rearrangements were then employed to form a lexical field according to each topic that had the same relationships despite their different level structure in terms of culture category. Then, the lexicon of ideological culture carrying Korean culture’s symbolic meaning in Arirang lyrics was identified from the lexical field and its symbolism was analyzed.
Symbolism was analyzed by applying the analytic tool built based on Essence-Function Theory (體用論) that was the Korean-style cognitive structure commonly around during the period when Arirang was created and passed on. This analysis was then used to assess and suggest the symbolic meaning of Korean ideological culture inherent in lexicon forming Arirang lyrics. Analysis results showed that Arirang constitutes a sum of Koreans’ lives and thoughts and as such, proves to be a repository of the rhetoric among people best reflecting Korean culture for the field of Korean studies.
The significance of this research rests in its attempt of visualizing the symbolism of Korean culture contained in Arirang lyrics.
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