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What Could Mean âTo Think in Spanishâ?
Ernesto Garzón Valdéssubject
Cultural StudiesLiteratureSpanish languageSociology and Political Sciencebusiness.industryGeneral Arts and Humanitiesmedia_common.quotation_subjectPhilosophyInterpretation (philosophy)Character (symbol)State of affairsEpistemologyExpression (architecture)OriginalityPatriotismNormativebusinessmedia_commondescription
The expression “to think in Spanish” could be understand in two different senses: as an exhortation or as a description of an state of affairs. In the first sense it has a normative character. It can means something like “we must think in Spanish!”. In the second case, it would be a more or less vague formulation about the existence of a relevant intelectual tradition in the spanish language. The first interpretation is misleading and can have excluding or trivial consequences. The second one is partially true. I propose a third interpretation: “to think in Spanish” could be understood as an invitation not to forget our Spanish-speaking environment in the double sense of the physical and intelectual location of our effects to think with acertain claim of originality
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-26 | Arbor |