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Overview"The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China makes an innovative contribution to studies of language by historicizing the Chinese notion that words have ""meaning"" (content independent of instances of use). Rather than presuming that the concept of word-meaning had always existed, Jane Geaney explains how and why it arose in China. To account for why a normative term (yi, ""duty, morality, appropriateness"") came to be used for ""meanings"" found in dictionaries, Geaney examines interrelated patterns of word usage threading through and across a wide range of genres. These patterns show that by the first millennium, as textual production exploded—and as radically different writing forms (in Buddhist sutras) were encountered—yi already functioned as an externally accessible ""model"" for semantic interpretation of texts and sayings. The book has far-reaching implications. Because the idea of word-meaning is fundamental to theorizing, the book illuminates not only semantic ideas and the normativity of language in Early China, but also aspects of early Chinese philosophy and intellectual history. As the internet supplants one form of media (print), thereby reducing knowledge to vast digital databases, so too, this book explains, two thousand years ago a culture that prized oral and visual balance became an ""empire of the text.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane GeaneyPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438488936ISBN 10: 1438488939 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 July 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: General Context Part I: Key Metalinguistic Terms and Yi 義 as External 1. The Metalinguistic Implications of Words versus Names 2. Speech (Yan 言) from Within and Names (Ming 名) from Without 3. Yi 意 and the Heartmind's Activities 4. The Externality of Yi 義 5. The Resilience of the Externality of Yi 義 Part II: Yi 義 as Model 6. Yi 義 as Model: Stable, Accessible Standards 7. Yi 義 as Model in Diagrams, Genres, Figurative Language, and Names 8. A Framework Preceding the Shuowen's Metalinguistic Choices 9. Yi 義 Justifying with Models 10. Yi 義 in the Shuowen Jiezi Conclusion Appendix A: Why Translate Yi 義 as ""Model""? Appendix B: Yi 義's Externality in Dispute: The Mengzi and the Mo Bian Appendix C: Glossary of Terms with Aural or Visual Associations Bibliography Index"ReviewsThis is an excellent study of the Chinese understanding of the relationship between language and reality. Geaney explores classical Chinese philosophy in an innovative way, bringing together intercultural, philological, and philosophical approaches in ways that generate fresh interpretations, and offering new perspectives on issues linked to the questions of perception and interpretation of reality. Through the analysis of key terms such as ming, yi, and yi, she argues that Chinese philosophical terminology is not simply an 'underdeveloped' or 'less developed' version of the Euro-American perspectives on these issues. Rather, she uses a sound cross-cultural method to clearly illuminate the uniqueness and the general relevance of the development of Chinese metalinguistic terms. - Jana S. Rosker, author of Following His Own Path: Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy Author InformationJane Geaney is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Language as Bodily Practice in Early China: A Chinese Grammatology, also published by SUNY Press, and On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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