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Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
1£®1 An overview
1£®2 The Spoken Word£º The base of writing
1£®3 Basic flow of ideas
1£®4 Theoretical probing£º The nature of Chinese characters
1£®5 Limitations ofthe monograph
1£®6 How to use the book

Part ¢ñ The Chinese Character£º Theoretical Explorations
Chapter 2 The Chinese Language as a Multi-Dimensional City
2£®1 Introduction
2£®2 Wittgenstein's metaphors about language studies
2£®3 The first primitive start of the Chinese language cityscape
2£®4 Approaching the Chinese language as multi-dimensional modes of existence
2£®5 The four-borne discourses£º A demographic characterization
2£®6 The four-borne discourses and categorization of idiolects
2£®7 Recap
Chapter 3 Chinese Writing in the Ancient City of the Chinese Language and Civilization
3£®1 Introduction
3£®2 The Land-Borne Situated Discourse£º Foundation and yardstick for writing
3£®2£®1 Situatedness of discourse
3£®2£®2 Human space-time movement and activity zone
3£®2£®3 Social Space-Time
3£®2£®4 Natural multimodality and total saturated experience
3£®2£®5 Sedimentation of discourse process
3£®2£®6 Accessibility and availability
3£®3 WWBD£¬ABSD and WBSD£º A contrastive study
3£®3£®1 The WWBD
3£®3£®2 The ABSD
3£®3£®3 The WBSD
3£®4 The four-borne discourses£º Maintenance£¬ reproduction£¬ and creativity
3£®5 Literature review£º Where does the present study stand?
3£®5£®1 Media studies
3£®5£®2 Media and a fundamental metaphor
3£®5£®3 Semiotic approach to media studies
3£®5£®4 The present study£® Rethinking of "the extensions of man"
3£®5£®5 Discourse analysis and media
3£®6 Final remarks
Chapter 4 The Written Word-Borne Discourse£º An Ecological Model
4£®1 Introduction
4£®2 An ecological model
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Part ¢ò The Chinese Characterin Cross-Gultural Perspedive