From: Emilio Tenti <Emilio-AT-iipe-buenosaires.org.ar>
Subject: RE: plurilinguism
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:05:04 -0300


Dear all,

My mother tongue is italian. I live and work in Argentina, I studied 3 years
in Paris, and I was visiting professor in the Sorbonne. I can read
"sociological english" but it is to hard for me to write in this langage.
Here I only want to say something very simple: please don't mix to very
differents things: 

	a) The degree and the quality of knowlegde that many of us, spanish
speakers sociologists, we have about contemporary sociological theory, (not
only about Bourdieu but about Giddens, Elias, Pizzorno, Touraine, Boudon,
Coleman, and so on.....). In other terms....our interests like sociologists
are are far away of  only say this stupid sentence: "how exciting it would
be to talk about Bourdieu in Spanish" ..... I find this sentence a bit
offensive....

      b) The capacity to interact  in english in this very usefull list.
...We (the spanish, french or italian...speakers sociologists) can learn a
lot reading some very intelligents contributions and participating even in a
marginal and ocasional way, even in spanish, french or in my very "italian
or spanish" english. ....

And finally, some people of this list must be a bit more kind whith
us....You can do it !

With best wishes,

 Emilio


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