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Ferdinand de Saussure is one of the pioneers who argue for the linguistic distinction between the West and the East. He argues that the western words (yan 言) (especially Indo-European) are mainly phoneticbased, but that the eastern words (especially Chinese) are not. Nevertheless, Edward Slingerland, in “Metaphor and Meaning in Early China,” argues for a better understanding of the role of metaphor in Early Chinese thought (yi 意). Metaphorical conceptual structure is not a unique nature of the Chinese, but it is common among all human beings. On the one hand, Slingerland is correct to argue for the common role of metaphor in both western and eastern thought. On the other hand, this paper aims at arguing that his rejection of the distinction between the “Abstract West” and the “Concrete East” is doubtful, as the distinction can be retained linguistically. Saussure and recent neuro-linguistic researchers provide evidences to support the distinction in the sense that the “Abstract West” refers to a phonetic-image (xiang 象 ) linguistic-determination, and the “Concrete East” refers to a visual-image linguistic-determination.

The Distinction between the ‘Abstract West’ and the ‘Concrete East’ from a Linguistic Perspective