Communication in the Analects of Confucius

This work offers a new perspective on the work of Confucius, the great reference of classical Chinese thought. In general, relatively little work has been done on Confucius' linguistic concerns, which nevertheless did have an impact in his time and afterwards. The author starts from a sociolinguistic approach, based mainly on the ethnography of communication, to analyze the role played by language in Confucius' texts and its links with the ethical program proposed therein. It is, therefore, a considerably novel perspective which, moreover, allows us to cover a very relevant number of interests. The pages of this work concern sociolinguists, but also historians of linguistics, philosophers, and cultural scientists in general. In short, it provides a different vision of one of the great cultural references of humanity.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables - Introduction - The Analects: Their Time, Their Environment and Their Projection - Confucius, Historical Figure and Cultural Myth - Confucian Man's Ways of Communicating - Verbal Behavioural Patterns - The Contemporary Potential of the Analects: A Complex Reading from the Perspective of the Communicative Event - Communication as an Ethical Instrument - Terminology Notes.

About the author

Francisco García Marcos, PhD in philosophy (University of Granada, Spain), is a specialist in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and history of linguistics. He is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Almería (Spain), and he has also taught at UNED (Madrid), Kiel (Germany), and Granada (Spain).

Product details

• Authors: Francisco García Marcos, Francisco García Marcos
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2022
• EAN: 9781433192579
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-9257-9
• No. of pages: 92
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 11 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 232 g
• Illustrations: 4 Abb.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Ethics, Communication, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, García, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Marcos, Sociolinguistics, Confucius, Francisco, Historical & comparative linguistics, Non-Western philosophy, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Historical and comparative linguistics, Chinese philosophy, history of culture, Analects, History of Linguistics, Ethnography of speech