한극서예의 국제화를 위해서는 그 동안 한자 중심의 전통세예를 탈피 한 디지털시대 맞는 방법론을 찾아보는 것이 중요하다. 가장 한국적인 것이 가장 세계적이다 라는 말과 같이 서양 동양 중국 일본 한국 등 특정 문화에 대한 편견을 버리고 우리 한글이 우수성과 문자의 독자성을 찾아 서 거기에 맞는 방법론을 찾는 것이 중요하다. 논자는 그 방법론 중에서 문자텍스트와 이미지가 융합된 전형적인 도 상텍스트를 중심으로 연구를 하고자 한다 아울러 본 연구에서는 서구기 호학이 천착해운 기호사각형 관점을 빌려 서양의 타이포그래피 나 캘리 그래피 동양의 전통서예 나 문자도에 나타나는 상이한 차이에 대한 물음 을 제기하면서 서예문화를 연구한다. 한글은 타 글자와는 다른 추상문자에서 출발하여 점차 이미지로 변환 되어가는 문자 추상이 중심이 되므로 기호학 관점을 빌어 연구할 만한 충분한 가치가 있다.

This study is a semiotic investigation work for Korean calligraphy, which carried on the legacy of traditional calligraphy focusing on Chinese character. Korean calligraphy has succeeded and developed the calligraphy system of Chinese character which has been practicing vitality based on line and stroke. In digital age which focuses on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and AI, the future generation faces the challenge to overcome the traditional calligraphy dependent on tool of brush. It does not mean to take advantage of specific ideology of "Thing with the most Korean feature can also succeed in the global market". Overcoming traditional calligraphy means to abandon prejudices about specific cultures such as Western and Oriental, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and to find methodological possibilities on globalization of the superiority within Korean calligraphy while selecting identify of every letter. Among the debaters, one may wonder on reasons for finding methodological possibility in semiotics. Semiotics differentiates background, region, era,and nationality for typical icono-text integrated with text characters and images and analyzes and identifies the symbolism and stylistic characteristic. It is also a methodological tool for academical establishment. In order to suggest the direction for contemporary calligraphy which integrates image and text and forms the third system unlike text-based linguistics research and image-based iconography, the semiotic investigation can be the alternative to calligraphy research as tradition succession and modernization. Western semiotician such as Derrida, Roland Barthes and Peirce explained the relation between text and image, origin and development of text, symbolization process of shape in the perspective of Grammatologie(graphonomy) and perspective of diagram(text drawing) In graphonomy, the drawing is abstracted from the initial drawing, same as the Chinese character and the drawing focuses on image abstraction during the hieroglyphic process. On the other hand, text drawing starts from abstract text, same as Korean ?bet and the and text drawing focuses on text abstraction which gradually changes text to image. These are the significant distinction between traditional calligraphy and Korean calligraphy and they will be explained in detail later on. This study reconsiders the Saussure, a semiotician, thoughts saying "It is only meaningful within difference and through difference" which demonstrates formative semiotics(especially semiotic square)perspective pursued by western semiotics. Through such reconsideration, the study aims to suggest differences in western typography and calligraphy and oriental traditional calligraphy and text drawing.

I. 서론
 II. 당신은 측량사인가 몽유병 환자인가?
 III. 도상기호학으로서의 한글서예
 IV. 한글서예의 도상화 과정
 V. 결론
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• 김윤배(대진대학교, Daejin University) | Kim, Yoon Bae