Speaking one’s own language makes a people’s worldview concrete and visible

Evidence

The fact remains, nonetheless, that, when a people speaks its language or languages, it is above aIl free to produce through them at every level-free, that is, to make its relationship to the world concrete and visible for itself and for others. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 566

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Language preserves fossilized worldviews within its living metaphors — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599; Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization.; Reimagining words as mere representations made a people’s distinctive mentality accessible as an abstraction — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 446

Broader Connections

• Language preserves fossilized worldviews within its living metaphors #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599
• Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization. #expands (0.85)
• Reimagining words as mere representations made a people’s distinctive mentality accessible as an abstraction #complicates (0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 446