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Language as bodily practice in early China : a Chinese grammatology / Jane Geaney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geaney, Jane, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese language--Philosophy--History.
- Chinese language.
- Language and culture--China--History.
- Language and culture.
- Chinese language--Philosophy.
- History.
- China.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York, 2018.
- Contents:
- Discounting the language crisis in early China
- The crisis of blockage: accessing and transmitting obscure things
- The crisis of blockage: why not language and reality?
- The prescriptive crisis: nomenclature, not system
- The prescriptive crisis: naming and distinguishing
- The prescriptive crisis: correcting names without performing rules
- Understanding early Chinese conceptions of speech and names
- Successful communication: getting the Yi and becoming Tong
- Ritual versus Li as the visible complement of sound
- Zhengming and Li as the visible complement of sound
- Embodied Zhengming: how we are influenced by seeing and hearing
- Separating Lunyu 12.11 from Zhengming
- Glossary of terms with aural or visual associations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Geaney, Jane. Language as bodily practice in early China.
- ISBN:
- 9781438468617
- 143846861X
- OCLC:
- 1012637736
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