Barbara Cassin More Than One Language

Barbara Cassin More Than One Language

1. Why Learn and Speak a Different Language from One’s Own?

   • different languages´-Different worlds

2. What Is a Maternal Language? Barbarity and Blah Blah Blah

   • The mother tongue is the language of the context in which we develop from the belly until we grow up .
   • Barbarian, anyone who speaks pure blah blah blah and won't speak the language Greek Logos

3. “A Language is Not Something that Belongs”

   • It doesn’t belong to you: you belong to it and it belongs to people other than you.
   • if a language is not something that belongs, this is also because it is something that is learned.

4. Several Languages Several Worlds

   • how each one always sketches out something like a world or a vision of the world, and how these worlds enter into contact with one another.

5. Untranslatables

   • Translating
     • one language to another, is like go from one world to another
   • Homonyms
     • the same word means several things
   • words that one cannot render in another language, that are characteristics of a language and signal it in its difference: in sum, symptoms of the difference of languages.