Language as Bodily Practice in Early China Ratna Karan

Language as Bodily Practice in Early China Ratna KaranChallenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis." Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of speech and naming cannot be properly understood if viewed through the dominant Western philosophical tradition in which language is framed through dualisms that are based on hierarchies of speech and writing, such as reality appearance and one many. Instead, early Chinese texts

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