Acknowledgments
Introduction: General Context
Part I: Key Metalinguistic Terms and Yi ¿ as External
1. The Metalinguistic Implications of Words versus Names
2. Speech (Yan ¿) from Within and Names (Ming ¿) from Without
3. Yi ¿ and the Heartmind's Activities
4. The Externality of Yi ¿
5. The Resilience of the Externality of Yi ¿
Part II: Yi ¿ as Model
6. Yi ¿ as Model: Stable, Accessible Standards
7. Yi ¿ as Model in Diagrams, Genres, Figurative Language, and Names
8. A Framework Preceding the Shuowen's Metalinguistic Choices
9. Yi ¿ Justifying with Models
10. Yi ¿ in the Shuowen Jiezi
Conclusion
Appendix A: Why Translate Yi ¿ as "Model"?
Appendix B: Yi ¿'s Externality in Dispute: The Mengzi and the Mo Bian
Appendix C: Glossary of Terms with Aural or Visual Associations
Bibliography
Index

Jane Geaney is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Language as Bodily Practice in Early China: A Chinese Grammatology, also published by SUNY Press, and On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought.