Chapter Ten: Zhengming 正名“Making Words Correct” and Chinese Language Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Chinese Characters 1
5. Chapter One: Platonism and the Strong Theory 18
6. Chapter Two: Aristotelianism and Soft Theory 32
7. Chapter Three: Hellenized Egypt, Pythagoreanism, and the Primitivist Theory 42
8. Chapter Four: Patristic Apologetics and the Scriptural Theory 59
9. Chapter Five: Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Theory 85
10. Chapter Six: Universals and the Scholastic Theory 108
11. Chapter Seven: Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Emblematic Theory 135
12. Chapter Eight: Athanasius Kircher on Egyptian and Chinese Ideography 144
13. Chapter Nine: The Great Chinese Encyclopedia 156
14. Chapter Ten: Zhengming 正名“Making Words Correct” and Chinese Language Theory 177
15. Chapter Eleven: Chinese Language Theory and the Interpretation of the Classics 189
16. Chapter Twelve: The Erya and Lexicographic Classification 202
17. Chapter Thirteen: The Erya and Chinese Language Theory 214
18. Chapter Fourteen: The Shuowen jiezi and Chinese Language Theory 236
19. Chapter Fifteen: The “Shuowen Postface” (Annotated Translation) 258
20. Conclusion: Ideography and Chinese Language Theory 274
21. Appendix: The Metalinguistic Terms Ming 名,Yi 義,Yi 意, and Zhi 志 285
22. Bibliography 306