This study attempted to understand the principle by structurally approaching the adaptation that appears as a phenomenon today. Adaptation studies so far has put more weight on individual case studies than on the universal structure. This study is a n...
This study attempted to understand the principle by structurally approaching the adaptation that appears as a phenomenon today. Adaptation studies so far has put more weight on individual case studies than on the universal structure. This study is a new attempt to understand adaptation. As the first step, I defined the adaptation as the process of converting or creating a new meaning of the original. As the original text was adapted into a performance, it focused on the process of creating a new meaning.
The process of generating a new meaning was applied to the process of inferring the meaning of the relevance theory to define the meaning generation structure of the performance adaptation. This study confirmed that a new meaning is being created in the adaptation through the interaction of the adaptor's interpretation corresponding to the explicature in the relevance theory and the context corresponding to the implicated premises.
To support this, four performances adapted from the Korean myth "Woncheon-gang bonpuri" were analyzed by applying the meaning generation structure as examples. As a result, it was confirmed that all adapted performances are creating new meanings through the interaction of the adaptor's subjective perspective and contemporary context. In addition, this study set the category of the context of the performance adaptation so that the structure of meaning generation can be used in the process of practice.