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언어도단(言語道斷)의 길
Blocking the Language Way
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- 제19권 1호 (2017.06)바로가기
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- 페이지
- pp.55-70
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- 저자
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- 언어
- 한국어(KOR)
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- https://www.earticle.net/Article/A311004
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초록
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- Buddhist meditation (also known as‘seon’or‘zen’) aims at enlightenment; enlightenment could be defined as a state of mind in which you have reached ultimate truth, the truth about the universe and our life and death. In terms of Seon Buddhism, it means that you see Buddha nature and become Buddha (見 性成佛). All the scriptures, i.e. the so-called Eighty Thousands Buddhist Sutras and all the sermons that your‘sunim’delivers to you are concerned with enlightenment: they are all purported to explain what Buddha nature is and how you get there. But one of the basic tenets of Seon Buddhism is that there is no way of characterizing what Seon is: no words and expressions can capture the truth. Truth and words are incompatible. In spite of this dilemma, however, Seon masters and students never stop trying to describe or explain it with words. Human language seems to be a kind of necessary evil. In this regard, Wonhyo(617~686), the great Buddhist priest in the Shilla period, has pointed out that“no matter how deep truth may be, how can it escape from the appearances of things? No matter how still it may be, it is nonetheless just in the (quarrelsome) discourse of all sects”and so you can“get away from language only by language”. Wonhyo’s idea of this, known as Theory of Reconciliation (和爭思想), is an attempt to show that the incompatibility (or paradox or contradiction) between truth and language can be overcome or transcended. This discussion inevitably leads us to one of the most controversial psycholinguistic questions in the modern studies of language and mind: how language and thought are connected or even whether they are indeed connected or not. A well-known modern version of the attempts to answer the question was made by the two American linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf in the early twentieth century. Their idea is summed up as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which holds that language and thought are closely connected with each other to the extent that the structure of a language affects (or determines or influences) its speakers’cognition or world view. The hypothesis is also known as “linguistic relativity principle” or “linguistic determinism.” Instead of climbing the bandwagon in support of the generally unfavorable criticisms of the hypothesis by the main stream linguistics community today, I think we should choose to learn from the insight hidden in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and we can reexamine the hypothesis in terms of Wonhyo’s Theory of Reconciliation. I believe that it will shed new light on the understanding of human mind and language.
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Buddhist meditation seon (or zen) enlightenment Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Wonhyo Wonhyo’s Theory of Reconciliation저자
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발행기관
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- 발행기관명
- 국제언어인문학회 [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE]
- 설립연도
- 2000
- 분야
- 인문학>언어학
- 소개
- 국제언어인문학회는 '언어를 통한 인문학 연구'의 필요성에 동감하는 여러 전공분야 학자들의 뜻을 담고 있습니다. 언어에 초점을 맞추는 것은, 다양한 전공분야의 참여에서 생겨날 수 있는 '이질적 집합'의 상황을 극복하기 위한 장치입니다. 현재로서는 작은 불씨를 지핀 것에 불과합니다. 그러나 이렇게 일구어진 불꽃이 새로운 학풍의 바람결에 커다란 섬광으로 빛나게 될 날이 올 것을 우리는 확신합니다. 우리의 학회와 학술지는 인문학 불변의 가치와 시대적 사명을 인식하는 국내외의 학자들을 향해 활짝 개방되어 있습니다. 특정 전공의 범위를 넘어서서 철학, 문학, 언어학, 종교, 역사, 문화, 예술 등의 시각에서 언어의 본질을 토론할 기회가 될 것입니다.
간행물
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- 간행물명
- 인문언어 [LINGUA HUMANITATIS]
- 간기
- 반년간
- pISSN
- 1598-2130
- 수록기간
- 2000~2025
- 등재여부
- KCI 등재
- 십진분류
- KDC 705 DDC 405
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