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portada The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China (Suny in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
279
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781438488936

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China (Suny in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Jane Geaney (Author) · State Univ Of New York Pr · Hardcover

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China (Suny in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) - Jane Geaney

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Synopsis "The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China (Suny in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) "

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.

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