An anatomy of Chinese : rhythm, metaphor, politics / Perry Link.

By:

Link, E. Perry (Eugene Perry)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.Description: viii, 367 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780674066021 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

495.116 LIN 23 004464

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Table of contents

Contents:

1.Rhythm The Prevalence of Rhythmic Patterns in Daily-Life Chinese Is Rhythm Unusually Common in Chinese? Speakers' Awareness of Rhythm Are There Fads in Rhythms? The Roots of Rhythms "External" Rhythms: Dominant and Recessive Recessive Rhythms of Favor How Recessive Rhythms Affect Structure How Universal Are the Preferred Rhythms of Chinese? Do Rhythms Have Meanings? What Other Formal Features Contribute to Meaning? Can the Users of Rhythm Be Unaware of Its Effects? 2.Metaphor How Do Metaphors Work in Ordinary Language? Metaphor and Thought Time Color Up and Down North and South Consciousness The Self in Ancient Thought Privilege in Dyads Metaphors That Chinese and English (Pretty Much) Share Metaphors in Chinese That Diverge from English in Significant Ways Conceptual Differences That Are Rooted in Metaphor Can Conceptual Metaphors Generate Philosophical Problems? Contents note continued: The Significance of Similarities and Differences among Conceptual Metaphors in Different Languages 3.Politics A Bifurcation Characteristics of the Official Language The Language Game How the Game Is Played: From the Side of the Rulers How the Game Is Played: From the Side of the Ruled Effects of the Language Game in the Mao and the Post-Mao Eras Compared.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Rhythm
The Prevalence of Rhythmic Patterns in Daily-Life Chinese
Is Rhythm Unusually Common in Chinese?
Speakers' Awareness of Rhythm
Are There Fads in Rhythms?
The Roots of Rhythms
"External" Rhythms: Dominant and Recessive
Recessive Rhythms of Favor
How Recessive Rhythms Affect Structure
How Universal Are the Preferred Rhythms of Chinese?
Do Rhythms Have Meanings?
What Other Formal Features Contribute to Meaning?
Can the Users of Rhythm Be Unaware of Its Effects?
2.Metaphor
How Do Metaphors Work in Ordinary Language?
Metaphor and Thought
Time
Color
Up and Down
North and South
Consciousness
The Self in Ancient Thought
Privilege in Dyads
Metaphors That Chinese and English (Pretty Much) Share
Metaphors in Chinese That Diverge from English in Significant Ways
Conceptual Differences That Are Rooted in Metaphor
Can Conceptual Metaphors Generate Philosophical Problems?
Contents note continued: The Significance of Similarities and Differences among Conceptual Metaphors in Different Languages
3.Politics
A Bifurcation
Characteristics of the Official Language
The Language Game
How the Game Is Played: From the Side of the Rulers
How the Game Is Played: From the Side of the Ruled
Effects of the Language Game in the Mao and the Post-Mao Eras Compared.

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