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The Synthetic Tongue : = Speech, Writing, and "Speech Writings" in Early China.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Synthetic Tongue :/
Reminder of title:	Speech, Writing, and "Speech Writings" in Early China.
Author:	Yao, Zhuming.
Description:	1 online resource (261 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-12A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379719098

The Synthetic Tongue : = Speech, Writing, and "Speech Writings" in Early China.
Yao, Zhuming.

The Synthetic Tongue :Speech, Writing, and "Speech Writings" in Early China. - 1 online resource (261 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Many early Chinese writings feature a scene of speech. In more literary writings as in more technical ones, writing often puts in the mouth of a speaker what the text tries to get across. Frequently, the speaker's spoken words, comprising a text either in full or in part, also occupy the center stage of writing's attempt at narrating a story, arguing a point, imparting a skill, or simply sorting things out. The list goes on. This lasting, shared, and versatile appeal to, and of, the spoken word in early Chinese writings is the topic of this dissertation. It argues that speech representation is first and foremost a narrative device serving a text's rhetorical aims. Writing does not represent speech as a mere technology of transcription; rather, writing creates a world-in-itself with and through the representation of speech, a highly elevated medium of expression since early on. In the process, this dissertation also shows, there developed a set of representational structures and narrative techniques with which speech representation was approached. The former supply writing with the forms, shapes, and tropes that underlie the representation of speech; the latter the means to make creative but circumscribed variations. Together, they cement the role of the spoken word as a narrative construct that different writings can use and adapt for their own rhetorical purposes. In highlighting these aspects of the spoken word, this dissertation offers an account of a core but underemphasized attribute of early Chinese textuality, models a new methodological approach, and proposes a range of interpretations of texts old and new intended to reevaluate their meaning and significance. Its goal, ultimately, is to promote a new way of reading.

Electronic reproduction.
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2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379719098Subjects--Topical Terms:

1183555
Asian literature.
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Comparative antiquityIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

The Synthetic Tongue : = Speech, Writing, and "Speech Writings" in Early China.
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