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Author Geaney, Jane, author.

Title Language as bodily practice in early China : a Chinese grammatology / Jane Geaney.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 309 pages).
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Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Chinese language -- Philosophy -- History.
Chinese language -- Philosophy.
History.
Chinese language.
Language and culture -- China -- History.
Language and culture.
China.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Geaney, Jane. Language as bodily practice in early China. Albany, NY : State University of New York, 2018 9781438468617 (DLC) 2017015618
ISBN 9781438468624 (electronic book)
1438468628 (electronic book)
9781438468617 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)