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
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Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2018)