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Ideogram : Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning /
In this latest book, J. Marshall Unger exposes the historical, scientific, cultural, and practical flaws accompanying the widespread belief that Chinese characters embody pure, language-less meaning. Whether one is interested in Chinese characters from the standpoint of language, literature, semioti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2003]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Agony and bliss
- 2. Cryptograms vs. pictograms
- 3. The Great Wall of China and other exotic fables
- 4. Dave Barry vs. the intellectuals
- 5. How would a magician memorize Chinese characters?
- 6. Lord Chesterfield and the Mandarins
- 7. Where do hunches come from?
- 8. In the basement under the Chinese Room
- 9. Converging strands: can ''ideogram'' be salvaged?
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author