Sastra Anak Korea: Analisis Mitos

Sugihastuti*

Jurusan Sastra Indonesia

Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta

tutisugihastuti@yahoo.com

Abstract

This article discusses Korean children literature in the context of myth analysis or semiotic. Result of the study underlines that initially, both writtenly and orally, children literature was considered a discourse completed with empiricl utterance. Korean children literature was part of language which was developed as a combination where the subject (i.e. teller) is able to make use of language code in order to reveal his private mind. Within semiotic perspective, meaning in Korean children literature was not merely referred to sign but was the representation of its mental state. When Korean children literature was placed as a sign, its primordial characteristic became arbitrer. Through semiotic reading, readers is able to return the inversion of a myth. For this reason, the step is to sort the message into two different significant systems. In the first level, readers could identify each of the sign accurately. In the second level, i.e. in the level of connotative or myth, message is pull out into a wider meaning, that is a meaning whose signs refer to a group of signified or to a specific fragment of ideology.

Key words: verbal literature, discourse, semiotics, communication.