A cognitive network for oracle bone characters related to animals
| Autor: | Stefan Grünewald, Zhenbing Zeng, Andreas W. M. Dress |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Section (typography) 0102 computer and information sciences Split networks 01 natural sciences 050105 experimental psychology Oracle Oracle bone scripts phylogenetic networks SplitsTree 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences China similarity NeighborNet algorithm the Er Ya algorithm oracle bone characters animal classification phylogenetic analysis 05 social sciences (ancient) Chinese cognitive networks ancient Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Aristoteles Condensed Matter Physics (ancient) Chinese characters Krauterbucher Genealogy pictographs phylogenetic trees split networks Word lists by frequency Oracle bone script dissimilarity 010201 computation theory & mathematics animal characters Encyclopedia Chinese characters |
| DOI: | 10.1142/s0217979216300012 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we present an analysis of oracle bone characters for animals from a “cognitive” point of view. After some general remarks on oracle-bone characters presented in Sec. 1 and a short outline of the paper in Sec. 2, we collect various oracle-bone characters for animals from published resources in Sec. 3. In the next section, we begin analyzing a group of 60 ancient animal characters from www.zdic.net , a highly acclaimed internet dictionary of Chinese characters that is strictly based on historical sources, and introduce five categories of specific features regarding their (graphical) structure that will be used in Sec. 5 to associate corresponding feature vectors to these characters. In Sec. 6, these feature vectors will be used to investigate their dissimilarity in terms of a family of parameterized distance measures. And in the last section, we apply the SplitsTree method as encoded in the NeighborNet algorithms to construct a corresponding family of dissimilarity-based networks with the intention of elucidating how the ancient Chinese might have perceived the “animal world” in the late bronze age and to demonstrate that these pictographs reflect an intuitive understanding of this world and its inherent structure that predates its classification in the oldest surviving Chinese encyclopedia from approximately the third century BC, the Er Ya, as well as similar classification systems in the West by one to two millennia. We also present an English dictionary of 70 oracle bone characters for animals in Appendix A. In Appendix B, we list various variants of animal characters that were published in the Jia Gu Wen Bian (cf. 甲骨文编, A Complete Collection of Oracle Bone Characters, edited by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, published by the Zhonghua Book Company in 1965). We recall the frequencies of the 521 most frequent oracle bone characters in Appendix C as reported in [T. Chen, Yin-Shang Jiaguwen Zixing Xitong Zai Yanjiu, (The Structural System of Oracle Inscriptions) (Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe, Shanghai, 2010); Jiaguwen Shiwen Yongzi Pinlü Biao (A Frequency List of Oracle Characters), Center for the Study and Application of Chinese Characters (East China Normal University, Shanghai, 2010), http://www.wenzi.cn/en/default.aspx . And in Appendix D, we list the animals registered in the last five chapters of the Er Ya. |
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