Reality and the word

Abstract

I may disappoint some expectations, but on this occasion I am not going to refer to the concept of reality, purely and exclusively as “philosophical category designating and defining objective reality, whose only feature is that of existing outside and independently of consciousness” (A l. Bürov, The Aesthetic Essence of Art, 1956), nor to the word only as “the minimal independent linguistic unit” (J. Krarnsky, The word as a linguistic unit, 1969). After all, over the course of nine lustrums I would almost say that I have specialized in defrauding expectations, so that I will be able to refer, without any apprehension, to what we all (not only philosophers or linguists) understand by reality or by word, and which, in the end, is something that has not been invalidated by either the abstract or the experimental sciences. Sometimes we get so dazzled by the meanings (on the other hand, rigorously scientific) put into circulation by scholars and researchers, that we forget the meanings we have coined among all of us and throughout several geographies and generations. So here, without the slightest inferiority complex, we will often speak of la realidad monda y la palabra lironda, and vice versa. Now that Spanish has become the third language on a world scale, since it is spoken (although not always read or written) by some 320 million human beings, the word, in Jo that it is a language, a sign and a communicating medium, rivers link us all, and above all link our peoples, by allowing us to share a territory that we all contribute, to expand: language. And this is without forgetting the differentiation that put, both in Spain and America, the nuances, tones and peculiarities of inflection, modulation and accents, specific to each region.