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Ideogram : Chinese characters and the myth of disembodied meaning / J. Marshall Unger.
LIBRA PL1171 .U39 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Unger, J. Marshall.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese characters.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Chinese characters and the myth of disembodied meaning
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Exposes the historical, scientific, cultural, and practical flaws accompanying the widespread belief that Chinese characters embody pure, language-less meaning.
- Contents:
- 1 Agony and bliss 1
- Six myths about Chinese characters
- Twentieth-century chinoiserie
- Andreas Muller: fraud or genius?
- 2 Cryptograms vs. pictograms 20
- The notorious Yukaghir "love letter"
- The classification of writing systems
- But isn't a picture worth a thousand words?
- 3 The Great Wall of China and other exotic fables 40
- The handwriting's on the wall
- How we really read
- 4 Dave Barry vs. the intellectuals 54
- Obviously a joke ... or is it?
- The real reasons that Japanese is hard to read
- 5 How would a magician memorize Chinese characters? 71
- An extraordinary man
- The three techniques
- Applying the techniques to kanji
- 6 Lord Chesterfield and the Mandarins 84
- Longhand, shorthand, and calligraphy
- A sample of Gregg
- "We're not in Kansas anymore!"
- 7 Where do hunches come from? 111
- Beyond the primacy of speech
- Three notions of probability
- The analogy with semantics
- More about probability paradoxes
- 8 In the basement under the Chinese Room 131
- John Searle's Chinese Room
- The duplex house
- Home products
- Networking East Asia
- 9 Converging strands: can "ideogram" be salvaged? 151
- The emerging paradigm
- Dialogism
- Integrational semiology
- Language/brain coevolution
- Death of the ideogram.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824826566
- 0824827600
- OCLC:
- 52178955
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