Ideography And Chinese Language Theory

Author : Timothy Michael O’Neill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311045923X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideography and Chinese Language Theory written by Timothy Michael O’Neill and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a much-needed scholarly intervention and postcolonial corrective that examines why and when and how misunderstandings of Chinese writing came about and showcases the long history of Chinese theories of language. 'Ideography' as such assumes extra-linguistic, trans-historical, universal 'ideas' which are an outgrowth of Platonism and thus unique to European history. Classical Chinese discourse assumes that language (and writing) is an arbitrary artifact invented by sages for specific reasons at specific times in history. Language by this definition is an ever-changing technology amenable to historical manipulation; language is not the House of Being, but rather a historically embedded social construct that encodes quotidian human intentions and nothing more. These are incommensurate epistemes, each with its own cultural milieu and historical context. By comparing these two traditions, this study historicizes and decolonializes popular notions about Chinese characters, exposing the Eurocentrism inherent in all theories of ideography. Ideography and Chinese Language Theory will be of significant interest to historians, sinologists, theorists, and scholars in other branches of the humanities.

Author : Timothy Michael O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110457148
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideography and Chinese Language Theory written by Timothy Michael O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chu-Ren Huang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317231147
Total Pages : 963 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics written by Chu-Ren Huang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language. It examines how Chinese language is used in different contexts, and how the use of Chinese language affects culture, society, expression of self and persuasion of others; as well as how neurophysiological aspects of language disorder affect how we function and how the advance of technology changes the way the Chinese language is used and perceived. The Handbook concentrates on the cultural, societal and communicative characteristics of the Chinese language environment. Focusing on language use in action, in context and in vivo, this book intends to lay empirical grounds for collaboration and synergy among different fields.

Author : Wei Wang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260656
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres written by Wei Wang and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the connections between properties of texts and social practices (ideologies, stancetaking, power relations, etc.), the updated and exemplary research projects presented in the volume demonstrates a developing trajectory of research in Chinese language and discourse. With its empirical focus and stress on the role of language and discourse in social practice, this important new book discusses various language features as well as gender, stancetaking, and identity in Chinese discourse. This is a vital discussion for anyone interested in contemporary Chinese language and discourse studies. In examination of different layers of language (i.e. from lexical items and sentence structures to discourse features and discursive practices) across different genres of texts, the research projects have drawn on a variety of linguistic approaches and methodologies, including functional linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and various approaches to discourse analysis. Researchers and students of Chinese linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, translation studies, and China studies in general will find this volume an indispensable reference and an enjoyable read.

Author : John DeFrancis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Language written by John DeFrancis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Chinese language in its spoken and written forms, presenting the Chinese writing system, its relationship to speech, and the problems associated with literacy in China.

Author : Jeffrey Moser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226822478
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nominal Things written by Jeffrey Moser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations for methods of visualizing knowledge that scholars throughout early modern East Asia would use to make sense of the world around them. Of the artifacts these scholars studied, the most celebrated were bronze ritual vessels that had been cast nearly two thousand years earlier. While working to make sense of the relationship between the bronzes’ complex shapes and their inscribed glyphs, they came to realize that the objects were “nominal things”—objects inscribed with names that identified their own categories and uses. Eleventh-century scholars knew the meaning of these glyphs from hallowed Confucian writings that had been passed down through centuries, but they found shocking disconnects between the names and the bronzes on which they were inscribed. Nominal Things traces the process by which a distinctive system of empiricism was nurtured by discrepancies between the complex materiality of the bronzes and their inscriptions. By revealing the connections between the new empiricism and older ways of knowing, the book explains how scholars refashioned the words of the Confucian classics into material reality.

Author : James Scarth Gale
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487504349
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redemption and Regret written by James Scarth Gale and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents the unpublished and largely unknown writings of the missionary James Scarth Gale, one of the most important scholars and translators in modern Korean history.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004529446
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen 文 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheldon Pollock’s work on the history of literary cultures in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’ broke new ground in the theorization of historical processes of vernacularization and served as a wake-up call for comparative approaches to such processes in other translocal cultural formations. But are his characterizations of vernacularization in the Sinographic Sphere accurate, and do his ideas and framework allow us to speak of a ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’? How do the special typology of sinographic writing and associated technologies of vernacular reading complicate comparisons between the Sankrit and Latinate cosmopoleis? Such are the questions tackled in this volume. Contributors are Daehoe Ahn, Yufen Chang, Wiebke Denecke, Torquil Duthie, Marion Eggert, Greg Evon, Hoduk Hwang, John Jorgensen, Ross King, David Lurie, Alexey Lushchenko, Si Nae Park, John Phan, Mareshi Saito, and S. William Wells.

Author : Mark Byron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499015
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Ezra Pound Studies written by Mark Byron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.

Author : Frank Vigneron
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9882372465
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Pluperfect I written by Frank Vigneron and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro-American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book examines how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, i.e. what was construed as not belonging to their own cultural sphere, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs. While the 17th century was still a time when the epistemological backgrounds of both civilizations were so profoundly different that nearly no dialogue was possible, the 18th century saw the emergence in both places of profound changes that would get them close enough to create the conditions for the beginning of a conversation. First quite superficial and taking shape mostly in the decorative arts, this process of rapprochement, while remaining chaotic and unpredictable, led to wider and more profound zones of contact throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Through the reinterpretations of each other’s cultural creations, these zones of contact grew wider as the conditions for globalization became more and more prevalent. Frank Vigneron observes and explores these changes through texts and the visual arts to reveal how these two civilizations, while keeping their own characteristics, managed to develop fruitful dialogues and create deeply intertwined cultures. As an example, the final chapter looks at contemporary Chinese calligraphy as an art that, even though it has no equivalent in Euro-America, successfully integrated cross-cultural theoretical elements, thus exemplifying how past and outside can combine into new artistic constructs.