Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism The Other Way of Speaking

Abstract

Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; PART I Deconstruction in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism ; Understanding deconstruction through the Zhuangzi and Chan ; Zhuangzi’s dao deconstructs . . . and Zhuangzi deconstructs his dao ; The deconstruction of Buddha nature in Chan Buddhism ; PART II The liminology of language in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism ; What is a liminology of language? ; Zhuangzi’s liminology of “speaking non-speaking” ; The Chan contribution to the liminology of language ; PART III Pragmatics of indirect communication in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism ; The displacement of indirect communication ; The pragmatics of “goblet words”: indirect communication in the Zhuangzi ; The pragmatics of “never tell too plainly”: indirect communication in Chan ; Concluding remarks ; Notes ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index ;