Chinese ideographic writing as a picture of the world: theoretical approach

Daria Domashevskaya,Tatiana Shishmareva,Elena Khamaeva

doi:10.1051/shsconf/202213400142

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Abstract

The paper deals with an ideographic writing presented from the standpoint of systems theory, grammatology and semiotics. Ideographic writing is regarded as a natural linguistic semiotic system with its own picture of the world.Ideographic writing as a spacereflects a whole set of writing signs as the ethno-linguistic and cultural reflection of the external physical space of the world and its fixation in the graphic component of the semiosphere as they are perceived by the Chinese ethnic group. Writing as a system focuses on the hierarchical and structural aspects, on establishing its semiographic framework, formation and interpretation models of character components. Ideographic writing as a picture of the world has a semiographic framework that reveals types of knowledge structures that can be seen behind the structure of the characters. The ideographic picture of the world forms a graphic metamodel of Chinese ethno-linguistic semiosphere. Authors propose a graphic metamodel of ideographic writing system based on the semiographic approach. This approach is applied to represent a semiographic framework of the Chinese ideographic writing space, a framework that consists of 540 bushou systematised by Xu Shen in the first Chinese dictionary “Shuo wen jie zi”.

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The development of modern scientific knowledge is currently associated with the emergence of a new paradigm of post-non-classical science — global evolutionism, aimed at initiating a new dialogue between man and nature [15]
We present a graphic metamodel of Chinese ideographic writing system, which relates to the ideographic picture of the world as a semiographic framework
The theory of systems, grammatological and semiotic approaches allow us to look at the object of study - in the broadest terms, is writing in and for itself, and ideographic writing - from the polyparadigmatic point of view

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The development of modern scientific knowledge is currently associated with the emergence of a new paradigm of post-non-classical science — global evolutionism, aimed at initiating a new dialogue between man and nature [15]. This paradigm is characterized by the interconnection of self-organizing systems of different complexity, it exists in terms of interdisciplinarity and has a dialogical character. We proceed from the fact that any systems consist of many parts interacting with each other in a complex way: a society consisting of people, an organism with its cells, a liquid consisting of molecules, writing consisting of characters. The result of its interactions is a new quality of this system, namely, the effect of self-organization [15]

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