This book presents a method of linking the ordered structure of the cosmos with human thoughts: the theory of language holography. In the view presented here, the cosmos is in harmony with the human body and language, and human thoughts are holographic with the cosmos at the level of language. In a word, the holographic relation is nothing more than the bridge by means of which Guanlian Qian connects the cosmos, human, and language. This is a vitally important contribution to linguistic and philosophical studies that cannot be ignored.
The book has two main focus areas: outer language holography and inner language holography. These two areas constitute the core of the dynamic and holistic view put forward in the theory of language holography. The book’s main properties can be summarized into the following points: First and foremost, it is a book created in toto by a Chinese scholar devoted to pragmatics, theoretical linguistics, and philosophy of language. Secondly, the book was accepted by a top Chinese publisher and was republished the second year, which reflected its value and appeal. Thirdly, in terms of writing style, the book is characterized by succinctness and logic. As a result, it reads fluidly and smoothly without redundancies, which is not that common in linguistic or even philosophical works. Lastly, as stated by the author in the introduction, “Creation is the development of previous capacities, but it is also the generation of new ones”; this book can be said to put this concept into practice. Overall, the book offers a unique resource to readers around the world who want to know more about the truly original and innovative studies of language in Chinese academia.
Author(s): Guanlian Qian
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 260
City: Singapore
Preface
Prelude
Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Introduction: The Harmony of the Cosmos, Human Body, and Language
1 The Questions Unanswered in Aesthetic Linguistics
2 Human Body: The Conditions Ready for the Status of the Inner Language Holography vs the Outer Language Holography
3 Language: A Dynamically Balanced System
4 From the Harmony of the Three to the Theory of Language Holography
References
2 The Overall Frame of the Theory of Language Holography
1 The Configuration of Language and the Theory of Language Holography
2 The Object
3 The Methodology
4 The Law of Cosmos Holography: The First Theory Foundation-Stone
5 The System Theory: The Second Theory Foundation-Stone
5.1 What Is System?
5.2 Modern System Theory: The Most Prominent Property of the System
5.3 Problems Relevant to the System Theory
5.4 The Principle of Dragon Lantern
References
Part II The Inner Language Holography
3 The Inner Language Holography
1 Some key-terms of the law of cosmos holography
2 The law of biology holography
3 The law of material-spiritual holography
4 The argument for the status of the inner language holography in terms of the law of cosmos holography
4.1 The Introduction to the State of the Inner Language Holography
4.2 Demonstrations of the State of the Inner Language Holography
4.3 The “non-Holo-Ness in Holography” in the State of the Inner Language Holography
4.4 Brief Summary of the State of the Inner Language Holography
5 The argument for the status of the inner language holography in terms of the system theory
5.1 Language’s Wholeness
5.2 Language’s Organic Connection
5.3 Language’s Dynamicity
5.4 Language’s Orderliness
5.5 Language’s Purposiveness
5.6 Collateral Evidences
5.7 From the Theory of Language System to the State of the Inner Language Holography
References
4 The Holographic Relations Between Language and Cognition
1 Cognitive Linguistics and the Theory of language Holography
1.1 What Is Cognitive Science
1.2 The Theory of Language Holography at the Level of the Influences from Other Disciplines on Cognitive Science
1.3 The Relation Between the Theory of Language Holography and Cognitive Science Seen at the Level of the Latter’s Development Tendency
1.4 Other Aspects in Cognitive Science That Are Concerned with the Theory of Language Holography
1.5 Cognitive Linguistics and the Theory of Language Holography
2 The Hierarchy of Cognition and That of Language
2.1 The Hierarchy of Human Brain’s Cognitive and Thinking Process
2.2 The Holographic Relation Between the Hierarchy of Cognition and That of Language
2.3 Again on Language’s Position in Cognition and the Holographic Relation Between Them
3 Cognition and the Universality of Language
4 The Return of Cognition into Itself
References
Part III The Outer Language Holography
5 The Outer Rootstock of the Different Properties of Language
1 Language Holographibility
2 Language Recursiveness
2.1 Theoretical Introduction
2.2 Some Typical Forms of Recursive Structure
2.3 The Definition of Linguistic Recursiveness
2.4 The Demonstration of Linguistic Recursiveness
2.5 The Source of Linguistic Recursiveness: Language Structure is Holographic with the Cosmic One
3 Language Discreteness
4 Language Hierarchy
5 Language Linearity
6 Language Fuzziness
7 Language Rhythmicity
8 Language Organicity
9 Language Arbitrariness
10 Other Properties of Language
References
6 The Outer Rootstock of Different Theories of Language
1 Tagmemics
2 The Theory of Ferdinand de Saussure
2.1 The Holographic Observation of Saussure’s Differentiation Between Langue and Parole
2.2 The Holographic Observation of the Syntagmatic Relation Among Linguistic Signs
2.3 The Holographic Observation of Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics
3 The Systemic View-Point of Language
4 Cognitive Grammar
5 Valence Grammar
6 Systemic Grammar
7 The Principle of Integrity of Language Meaning
References
7 Linguistic Evidence for the Law of Cosmos Holography
1 The Up-Down-Containment of Cosmos and Language Respectively
2 Biology and Language: The Higher Hierarchy Having Attributes of the Lower Hierarchy
3 Godel’s the Monstrous-Circle of Mathematics and the Monstrous-Circle of Sentences
4 The Law of Cosmos-Return-into-Itself and the Self-Intertwining Discourse
4.1 The Self-Intertwining Discourse
4.2 The System of Self-Expression and Self-Intertwining Discourse
5 Cosmos Prototype and Language Modularity
6 Cosmos Clarified by Language
References
8 The Holographic Relation Between Language and Culture
1 Language and Cultural Reality
1.1 Introduction: Language and Culture Are Respectively the Microcosm of the World’s Information
1.2 The Coevolution of Language with Culture
2 The Coevolution of Language with Culture
3 The Cultural Perspective Condensed in Language
References
Part IV Prediction
9 Two Speculations About Language
1 Activation of the Sense of Sound Transmitted from the Foregone Generations
1.1 Introduction: About “Innate Language Acquisition Device”
1.2 The Speculation of the Activation of the Sense of Sound Transmitted from the Foregone Generations
2 Robots Cannot Have Human-like Intelligence and Language
References
Part V Conclusion
10 From Science to Philosophy of Language
References
Postscript
When I Wake Up
