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SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Language as bodily practice in early China: a Chinese grammatology / Jane Geaney. — 1 online resource (xxxix, 309 pages). — (SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1728141.pdf>.

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Subject: Chinese language — Philosophy — History.; Language and culture — History.; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY — Southeast Asian Languages.; Chinese language — Philosophy.; Language and culture.

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Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
    • Language and Writing
    • Non-glottic Writing and Ideographs
    • Writing and Abstract Linguistic Concepts
    • Changes in “Old Chinese”
    • Book Summary
  • Part One Discounting the Language Crisis in Early China
    • Chapter 1 The Crisis of Blockage: Accessing and Transmitting Obscure Things
      • Difficult Transmissions
      • Successful Speech
      • The Wheelwright’s Failure to Transmit
      • Transmitting the “That By/For Which” of Speech
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 2 The Crisis of Blockage: Why Not “Language and Reality”?
      • Real Solidity
      • Empty as Real
      • Reality and Aural/Visual Polarity
      • Balancing Reputation and Shi ?
      • Things as Possessing Aural and Visual Aspects
      • Aural and Visual Aspects in Death
      • Why Shi ? Came to Be Used to Mean “Real”
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 3 The Prescriptive Crisis: Nomenclature, Not System
      • Summary of the Prescriptive View of Language in Early China
        • Guidance in Ritual Books
        • Yi ? and the Early Confucians
        • Yi ? in the Mo Bian
      • Nomenclatures versus Systems
        • Early China: System or Nomenclature?
        • The Xunzi’s “Zhengming” and Nomenclaturism
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 4 The Prescriptive Crisis: Naming and Distinguishing
      • The Xunzi’s “Zhengming”: Names, Shi ?, and Distinguishing Same/Different
      • Metaphors for the Use of Names
      • Distinguishing and “Kinds” (Lei ?) in the Xunzi’s “Zhengming”
      • Binary Distinguishing
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 5 The Prescriptive Crisis: Correcting Names without “Performing” Rules
      • Language, Zhengming, and Yi ?
        • Zhengming and Intending to Perform Codified Rules and Models
        • Expressing the Heartmind with Yi ?
      • Ming ? without Yi ? in Early Chinese Texts
        • The Absence of Yi ? in the Lunyu 13.3
        • Ming without Yi ? in the Xunzi’s “Zhengming”
      • Yi ? in the Mo Bian Tripartite Division of Argument
      • Conclusion
  • Part Two Understanding Early Chinese Conceptions of Speech and Names
    • Chapter 6 Successful “Communication”: Getting the Yi ? and Becoming Tong ?
      • Communication in the Zhuangzi’s Fishnet/Rabbit Snare Allegory
      • Tong ? and the Nature of Communication
        • Mo Bian B41
        • Tongyi ?? in Other Early Chinese Texts
        • Regional Differences and Tong ?
      • Tong ? in Canon B41 Revisited
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 7 “Ritual” versus Li ? as the Visible Complement of Sound
      • Historicizing the Concept of Ritual
      • Li Is Visible Because “Walking” Is Visible
      • Visible Li and Audible Music
      • Counterargument: Gauging the Scope of Li
      • Response: The Nature of Sound and Sight
      • The Relationship of Ming to Li
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 8 Zhengming and Li ? as the Visible Complement of Sound
      • Zhengming, the Liji “Codebook,” and Commands
        • “Ritual” as Etiquette Manual
        • Ritual as Ceremony
        • “Ritual” as Code
        • “Ritual” as a Code of Social Roles
      • Zhengming and One/Many Dualisms
      • A Different Argument for Ritual Connection: Zhengming through the Lunyu 12.11 and Ritual Social Roles
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 9 Embodied Zhengming: How We Are Influenced by Seeing versus Hearing
      • Do People Follow What They Hear or What They See?
      • The Difference between Ming ?/? and Yan ?
      • Visible Models: Shaping by Doing
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 10 Separating Lunyu 12.11 from Zhengming
      • Zhengming with Li ? in Early Chinese Texts
      • Alternative Interpretations of Lunyu 12.11
      • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
    • A One-Footed Monster and a One-Footed Musician
    • Hearsay about a One-Footed Musician
    • A Musician with a One-Sided Deficiency
    • Conclusion
  • Appendix Glossary of Terms with Aural or Visual Associations
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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