A study of linguistic philosophy in Yi zhuan : simultaneously on the similarities and differences between Confucianism, Daoism and Yi in linguistic philosophy

This paper attempts to make a primary analysis on the linguistic philosophy in Yi zhuan, Confucianism represented by Confucius, Mencius and Xun zi's thoughts, and Daoism represented by Lao zi and Zhuang zis thoughts, and make a tentative research on the issues related to linguistic philosophy in the pre-Qin period philosophy, to study what characteristics of Chinese language some of the pre-Qin thinkers had examined. This paper supplies some inspiration for us to introspect the relationship between modern Chinese language and modern Chinese philosophy.