Prepositions are funny and usually very short linguistic creatures. We all know them and had to learn them growing up. They include such minute samples as: in, on, up, down, over, under, through, among many others. Many of us remember learning them from children’s TV shows such as Sesame Street and the like. There [...]
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Reflections: What is a preposition?
Posted in bilingualism, on language, on space, philosophy (short), tagged amelo14, andresmelo, being, Heidegger, maps, philosophy, prepositions, rarefaction, reflection, space on November 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Reflections: The Debate over Bilingual Education in the USA
Posted in bilingualism, on hispanics, on immigration, on language, on liberal education, on politics, philosophy on May 10, 1996 | 4 Comments »
THE DEBATE OVER BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND THE SPANISH LANGUAGE DEBATE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A) INTRODUCTION
Taking up the issue of bilingual education in the United States in general, and in particular with reference to the increasingly large and highly differentiated Spanish-speaking community, is a project that one can liken to Don [...]
Reflections: Language, Goods and Dialogue: some tentative aspects of the immigrant condition
Posted in bilingualism, on ethics, on hispanics, on immigration, on language, on liberal education, on politics, philosophy, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, dialogue, immigration, language, philosophy, politics, rarefaction, reflection, Taylor on December 20, 1995 | 1 Comment »
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AS I HAVE HAD SERIOUS PROBLEMS SCANNING THIS ESSAY
LANGUAGE, GOODS AND DIALOGUE: SOME TENTATIVE ASPECTS OF THE IMMIGRANT CONDITION
INTRODUCTION
Albert Camus carried his beloved Algiers with him throughout his whole life. Both his
body and pen knew of a sky, a sea, a sun and an earth which were [...]
