36.3292, Books: Space, Time and Quantification in the YiChing: Yang (2025)

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Subject: 36.3292, Books: Space, Time and Quantification in the YiChing: Yang (2025)

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Date: 28-Oct-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Space, Time and Quantification in the YiChing: Yang (2025)


Title: Space, Time and Quantification in the YiChing
Subtitle: A Conceptual Unity
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Language and Cognition
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/space-time-and-quantification-in-the-yiching-9781350509061/

Author(s): Yancheng Yang

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350509061, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This book explores linguistic representations and cultural
conceptualizations of the relationship between time and space in
ancient China, as expressed by the YiChing.
The YiChing, an ancient Chinese divination manual based on hexagrams,
is one of the oldest of the Chinese classics and a foundational text
for the Confucian and Daoist philosophical traditions. Its hexagrams
represent the internal logic of the world or universe as a dynamic
whole, alternating the processes of events based on the conceptual
unity of space and time and their quantification.
This book is the first in-depth examination of time and space and
their quantification in the YiChing from the perspective of cognitive
linguistics. Through detailed analysis of motion and life metaphors,
it argues that space and time, which in turn shapes how quantification
is expressed, is a unified concept in China.
Offering distinctive Chinese perspectives, this insightful study deals
with unsolved issues from experimental research in cognitive and
psychological science to further expand the existing linguistic and
cultural research field. The book compares the Chinese
conceptualization of the unity of space and time with an asymmetric
conceptualization of space and time in the West, making an original
contribution to the study of space, time and number in language and
cognition, and to the understanding of the history of Chinese thought.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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