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The book language, culture, speech (EUNSA) gathers programs of study of almost a hundred authors in homage to Full Professor of the University of Navarra Manuel Casado Velarde. The volume of more than 1,300 pages is part of the initiatives that have been promoted on the occasion of the professor's retirement. 

It has been edited by the researchers Ramón González, Inés Olza and Óscar Loureda, thanks to the partnership of the School of Philosophy y Letras, the Institute for Culture and Society and the School of Communication of the University of Navarra and the University of Heidelberg (Germany).

The work includes several biographies of Professor Casado and gathers the works around the most representative blocks of his research activity: 'Grammar and Linguistics of the text. Analysis of speech'; 'Lexicology and lexicography'; 'Language, culture and ideology. Language and truth'; 'Language and Education' and 'Literary language'.

The editors emphasize in the presentation that Manuel Casado "has explicitly defended the usefulness of the linguistic programs of study , a usefulness that is projected -nothing more and nothing less- in knowing the human being, even with the reflection on apparently trivial topics -let's take for example, the description of a suffix or the employment of a voice in the media speech -".

The 'necessary uselessness' of the programs of study linguistic

In this line, they add that "he has made his own one of the guidelines on which the vast intellectual production of one of his teachers, Eugenio Coseriu, was built: there are no small subjects, because they are all manifestations of the human spirit and, therefore, everything small turns out to be something transcendental". 

"The conviction of the 'necessary uselessness' of the linguistic programs of study has not implied that he left aside his social and cultural projection," they continue. "There are his interests -they point out- on the power of the language of the dominant ideologies or his deep concern for the devaluation of the word, for the lack of confidence in language in contemporary society, for the increasingly lowered rank given to linguistic knowledge in the pre-university Education and even in the university itself".