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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Unger, J. Marshall (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]
Temas:
Chinese characters.
Chinois (Langue) > Caractères.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
Chinese characters
Acceso en línea: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

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