Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China

• Main Author: Sun, Zhenbin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Semantics.; Communication.; Philosophy of Language.; Communication Studies.

This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. The work examines ancient Chinese philosophy through the pair of concepts known as ming-shi. By analyzing the pre-Qin thinkers’ discourse on ming and shi, the work explores how Chinese philos...

Table of Contents:

• Methodological and historical inquiry
• Four notions of names
• Synthesis of language and reality
• Moral practice and language
• Sociopolitical practice and language
• Linguistic practice and language
• Speech
• Argument
• Dao
• Practical zhi.