Volume 23, Issue 1/4, 2007
Semiotics in the Chinese Umwelt
You-zheng Li
Pages 39-44
Signification and Performance of Nonverbal Signs in the Confucianist Ritual System
The Confucianist learning of rites and related code systems are full of performing details realized in patterned conducts, programmed processes and multiplemedia-emblematic network most of which exhibit themselves as nonverbal signs and rhetoric. Those nonverbal ritual codes and the related regular performance exercise an extremely effective impact on the directed communication and domination of the society. As a result, in the Li-System the nonverbal signs and codes could function more relevantly and effectively than the related verbal part which itself functions also at a quasi-nonverbal level.