The Consortium contributes with this activity of conferences and debates to Cádiz's candidacy for the 10th International Congress of the Spanish Language
Language, the 'added value' that trade with America left us, will focus on the day organized by the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz at the Casa de Iberoamérica next December 10. This materializes the Consortium's contribution to Cádiz's candidacy for the Language Congress.
This morning the mayor of Cádiz, José María González, together with the Councilor for Culture, Lola Cazalilla, and the special delegate of the Free Trade Zone, Fran González, presented this conference that with the title 'Other Capital Gains from Foreign Trade' will bring together professors and professors from Andalusia and from outside the Autonomous Community to debate the origins, the present and the perspective of the Spanish Language linked to commercial exchange, especially with America.
The mayor has stressed that, among the support of all the institutions and groups - around 140 at the moment - that the candidacy has received, the Zona Franca has been one of the most important, due to its proactivity. “The Free Trade Zone has taken the invitation made by the City Council very seriously,” he said.
"Language - the mayor pointed out - is a vehicle for the exchange of products, but also of customs, feelings and cultures. Along with merchandise, ideas also traveled and that is also very important."
José María González described as “a luxury” the group of professors and professors who will come to Cádiz on December 10 to talk about the language, at the same time that he confessed to being “nervous” about the proximity of the designation of the city that will host the 10th Language Congress, a decision that will be announced next October 2022 in Arequipa, Peru. In any case, he noted, the effort being made “has already been worth it due to the large number of activities that are being carried out and the impact it is leaving on citizens.”
The State delegate in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, thanked the speakers participating in the day for their contribution and especially Lola Pons, coordinator of the meeting and professor in the department of Spanish Language, Linguistics and Theory of Literature at the University of Seville.
The person in charge of the Consortium has pointed out that "this day aims to be our way of collaborating and the support of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone for this candidacy" and added that "Cádiz deserves to be the showcase of the language in 2025 because for centuries it has been the entry and exit door of customs, knowledge and materials, which is the best way to bring and carry the word, in short, to enrich the lexicon."
Fran González has said that the title of the event that will be held on December 10 perfectly summarizes "our contribution, the contribution of a Free Trade Zone whose history is linked to the history of the last century of the city of Cádiz and that is the direct heir of a history of international trade because Cádiz has lived since ancient times trading with the world, since the Phoenicians who saw in this Bay the perfect place for commercial exchange with other peoples."
For her part, the Councilor for Culture, Lola Cazalilla, explained that the idea of promoting this candidacy is to get the people of Cádiz "to devote themselves to this activity." “We are working as if they had already designated us as the venue,” he stressed, while recalling that the way in which the candidacy is presented “has been unparalleled” in the history of these congresses, which started in 1997 in Zacatecas, Mexico.
The coordination of this day has been the responsibility of Lola Pons, professor in the Department of Spanish Language, Linguistics and Theory of Literature at the University of Seville. She will be the one who will give the first conference on December 10, at 10:00, with the title of “The vocabulary of economics in the history of the Spanish language”.
At 12:00 it will be the turn of Ana Medina Reguera, professor of the Department of Philology and Translation of the Pablo de Olavide University and doctor in German Philology from the University of Seville. Reguera will offer a presentation with the suggestive title of "If I don't understand it, I won't buy it. Relevance and impact of linguistic management in the foreign trade of Spanish SMEs."
In the afternoon (4:30 p.m.), the weight of the debate will be carried by Carmen Varo, professor of General Linguistics and secretary of the Institute of Applied Linguistics of the University of Cádiz. His presentation revolves around language at the service of the company, with linguistic tools to strengthen the corporate image.
The last conference will be that of the professor of Spanish Language at the Autonomous University of Madrid Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, who is also a philologist and expert in Historical Lexicography and the History of the Spanish Language. Álvarez de Miranda will talk about a curious character from the late 17th century: the Cádiz merchant Raimundo de Lantery.
The day will close at seven in the afternoon at the Casa de Iberoamérica.