The Synthetic Tongue: Speech, Writing, and "Speech Writings" in Early China- [electronic resource]
The Synthetic Tongue: Speech, Writing, and "Speech Writings" in Early China- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100500
- ISBN
- 9798379719098
- DDC
- 895
- 저자명
- Yao, Zhuming.
- 서명/저자
- The Synthetic Tongue: Speech, Writing, and Speech Writings in Early China - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Princeton University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(261 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Kern, Martin.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
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- 초록/해제
- 요약Many 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.
- 일반주제명
- Asian literature.
- 일반주제명
- Asian studies.
- 일반주제명
- Rhetoric.
- 키워드
- Early China
- 키워드
- Genre
- 키워드
- Shangshu
- 키워드
- Speech
- 키워드
- Writing
- 기타저자
- Princeton University East Asian Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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