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Author Geaney, Jane, author

Title Language as bodily practice in early China : a Chinese grammatology / Jane Geaney
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 309 pages)
Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2018)
Subject Chinese language -- Philosophy -- History
Language and culture -- China -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Chinese language -- Philosophy
Language and culture
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017056108
ISBN 9781438468624
1438468628