Publication: Tracing variation in Old Chinese: what, if anything, was "yǎyán 雅言"?
Tracing variation in Old Chinese: what, if anything, was "yǎyán 雅言"?
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Behr, W. (2023). Tracing variation in Old Chinese: what, if anything, was “yǎyán 雅言”? Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 51(2), 287–346. https://doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2023.a902792
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Based on the single pre-Qin attestation of the compound yǎyán 雅言 in the Confucian Analects ( Lúnyǔ 論語 7.18) the idea of a normative spoken standard language is often projected back by early modern and modern authors into remote pre-imperial antiquity. An overview of the conceptual history of the term and of the competing etymologies of yǎ in early Chinese texts is offered in order to problematize this "invented tradition" and its ideological baggage. Four types of evidence (uniformity of phonology and syntax in excavated texts, ode ci
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Behr, W. (2023). Tracing variation in Old Chinese: what, if anything, was “yǎyán 雅言”? Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 51(2), 287–346. https://doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2023.a902792