ANALISIS SEMIOTIK KATA KICCHIN, DAIDOKORO, DAN CHUUBOO DALAM NOVEL “KICCHIN†KARYA YOSHIMOTO BANANA

Abstract

“ Kicchin ” is Yoshimoto Banana’s monumental work which won literary award in Japan in 1987. This work was a debut of Yoshimoto to begin her career as a Japanese novelist who is famous world wide. Up to now, her work has been translated into twenty seven languages in the world, and in 1993, “ Kicchin ” got its best seller in Italy. In 1993, she got “ Mask ” award, an artist award from Italy. New York Times also gave high appreciation to “ Kicchin ”. It says that by reading “ Kicchin ”, people will understand the characteristics of Japanese people easily. By using semiotic approach, the writer analyzed the words “ kicchin, daidokoro , and chuuboo ” which mean kitchen. In this novel, a room named kitchen has meaning as a place for family gathering, a place for recovering the characters from loneliness and discouragement, and also as a place for the characters to achieve their future.