Abstract
Where do theories of language come from? They are summarized from language facts. Yes, they are. Nevertheless, why the same language fact can produce so many different theories? This is because people interpreting them have different viewpoints and perspectives. For instance, tagmemics compares language to the physical movement of the matter, and valence grammar compares languageās inner structure to the combination of the atoms inside the matter, which are nothing but the viewpoints and perspectives of cosmic structure on the linguistic one. In this chapter, I aim to seek the outer rootstock of these theories of language, and the relevant endeavors would surely reach this conclusion: whether or not the presenters of the original theories are aware of this, these theories can all find their interpretative rootstock outside themselves: language structure is isomorphic and similar to, corresponds to, and is embedded in the cosmic one, namely, they are holographic with one another. All these can be seen as the state of the outer language holography.
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Wang and Yan (1995, p. 306).
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Wang and Yan (1995, p. 54).
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Ibid., p. 169.
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Ibid., p. 54.
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Ibid., p. 429.
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Ibid., p. 310.
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Cf. Liu (1997, pp. 87ā92).
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Saussure (1959, p. 9).
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Cf. Liu (1997, pp. 87ā92).
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All the examples in this part are from The Gideons International āThe Holy Bibleā (The Authorized King James Version), National Publishing Company, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975.
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Guangzhou Morning Post, June 2, 2000, p. 1.
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The Gideons International āThe Holy Bibleā: New Testament: Matthew: Entering Jerusalem on a Donkey (The Authorized King James Version). National Publishing Company, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975.
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Cf. Shen (1994).
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Zhang (1998, p. 9).
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In this condition, the only one baby is usually a boy; as to the two babies, the first one is usually a girlāthe translator.
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Cf. Zhi and Liu (2000).
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Radford (1997, p. 142).
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ŠŠ¾ŃŠµŠ² (1981).
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The several Chinese sentences are borrowed from Mr. Zheng Dingouās speech, āLexical grammar and the compilation of the digital dictionary,ā on June 14, 2000, in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
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Cited from A complete Andersen (English translation by W. A. & J. K. Craigie) Thumbelina. Also cf. Complete Works of Andersenās Fairy Tales (2nd Edition). Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2000, p. 32.
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Qtd. Liu (1997, p. 25).
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Cf. Wang (1988, p. 381).
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Bronowski (1973, p. 153).
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Martinichi (1990).
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Frege (1953, p. xxii).
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Qian, G. (2021). The Outer Rootstock of Different Theories of Language. In: The Theory of Language Holography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2039-3_6
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