Japanese Hieroglossia

Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 February 2012

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
Cover of the book Japanese Hieroglossia by Jean-Noël Robert, Collège de France
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Author: Jean-Noël Robert ISBN: 9782722602717
Publisher: Collège de France Publication: October 21, 2013
Imprint: Collège de France Language: English
Author: Jean-Noël Robert
ISBN: 9782722602717
Publisher: Collège de France
Publication: October 21, 2013
Imprint: Collège de France
Language: English

At a very early stage, Japanese civilization asserted itself in a relationship of “linguistic competition” with Chinese, in both the religious, the literary, and the intellectual spheres. This cultural symbiosis linked to the shaping of a language, that Jean-Noël Robert has called hieroglossia, was the primary source of the speech that Yasunari Kawabata delivered upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968: By drawing on Japanese Buddhist poetry, he placed himself in the Zen tradition and the mysticism of the language of the Shingon school, according to which there is a direct link between linguistic signs and the substance of things.

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At a very early stage, Japanese civilization asserted itself in a relationship of “linguistic competition” with Chinese, in both the religious, the literary, and the intellectual spheres. This cultural symbiosis linked to the shaping of a language, that Jean-Noël Robert has called hieroglossia, was the primary source of the speech that Yasunari Kawabata delivered upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968: By drawing on Japanese Buddhist poetry, he placed himself in the Zen tradition and the mysticism of the language of the Shingon school, according to which there is a direct link between linguistic signs and the substance of things.

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