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Out of Phone-centrism: Philosophical Reflections on the Nature of Chinese Language and WritingChinese Full Text

GU Ming-dong;College of Foreign Languages,Yangzhou University;

Abstract: Western linguistic theory holds that language is a representation of thinking and writing is only a copy of language,not a language per se. The philosophical foundation of this theory is the Western tradition’s logo-centrism,which privileges presence over absence. Because spoken language is viewed as presence and writing as absence,speech is regarded as more important than writing,which is but a servant to language. This view of writing as an appendix to speech which is superior to writing is ca... More
  • Series:

    (H) Education & Social Sciences; (F) Literature/ History/ Philosophy

  • Subject:

    Chinese Language

  • Classification Code:

    H1-0

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