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单词 logocentric
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Definition of logocentric in English:

logocentric

adjective ˌlɒɡə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪkˌläɡə-
  • Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).

    词语中心的,语道中心的,逻各斯中心的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such linguistic or logocentric approaches to the arts have tended to distort or blur understandings of art on its own terms.
    • There are even languages where logocentric predicates are further restricted.
    • This inimitable project aside, the search for visual rather than textual material has been dominant in Courbet studies, supplanting the logocentric premise of iconography.
    • For one thing, it is needlessly redundant, since it basically comes down to saying that Kant's logocentrism ensures that logocentrism conceives the fine arts in a logocentric manner.
    • A new dementia had set in that corresponded in many ways to the confusion of the present - the advanced stages of representation in a culture still based on a logocentric conception of truth.
    • It is spatialized vertically, organized chromatically, and this hierarchical spatialization is logocentric in its opposition between orality and literacy.
    • Zimmerman uses provocative statements from the playwrights concerning the creative process and their artistic aims only to box them into a logocentric, traditional understanding of theatre.
    • That chiseling sound you hear in the world next door is the slow whittling away of the last vestiges of the logocentric tradition.
    • Even coming from a Western, logocentric perspective, most readers have no trouble entering this world and accepting that the beautiful woman is actually kin to deer, or that her human relatives can communicate in some way with pines.
    • Why should intuitive mothers reduce themselves down to our stupid logocentric system of male-domination?

Derivatives

  • logocentrism

  • noun
    • For one thing, it is needlessly redundant, since it basically comes down to saying that Kant's logocentrism ensures that logocentrism conceives the fine arts in a logocentric manner.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Postmodernism, with its more abstract and intellectualized forms of literary discourse, has made its living on a critique of the perceived logocentrism of all ‘traditional’ literature and thought.
      • This is a principle wholly at odds with logocentrism and the metaphysics of presence.
      • In Derrida's opinion, logocentrism attributes to logos the origin of truth.
      • Like logocentrism, the Atonist order is rational and linear.

Origin

1930s: from Greek logos 'word, reason' + -centric.

Definition of logocentric in US English:

logocentric

adjectiveˌläɡə-
  • Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).

    词语中心的,语道中心的,逻各斯中心的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For one thing, it is needlessly redundant, since it basically comes down to saying that Kant's logocentrism ensures that logocentrism conceives the fine arts in a logocentric manner.
    • Even coming from a Western, logocentric perspective, most readers have no trouble entering this world and accepting that the beautiful woman is actually kin to deer, or that her human relatives can communicate in some way with pines.
    • Zimmerman uses provocative statements from the playwrights concerning the creative process and their artistic aims only to box them into a logocentric, traditional understanding of theatre.
    • Such linguistic or logocentric approaches to the arts have tended to distort or blur understandings of art on its own terms.
    • It is spatialized vertically, organized chromatically, and this hierarchical spatialization is logocentric in its opposition between orality and literacy.
    • This inimitable project aside, the search for visual rather than textual material has been dominant in Courbet studies, supplanting the logocentric premise of iconography.
    • That chiseling sound you hear in the world next door is the slow whittling away of the last vestiges of the logocentric tradition.
    • Why should intuitive mothers reduce themselves down to our stupid logocentric system of male-domination?
    • A new dementia had set in that corresponded in many ways to the confusion of the present - the advanced stages of representation in a culture still based on a logocentric conception of truth.
    • There are even languages where logocentric predicates are further restricted.

Origin

1930s: from Greek logos ‘word, reason’ + -centric.

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