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Nueva revista de filología hispánica
versión On-line ISSN 2448-6558versión impresa ISSN 0185-0121
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ALBERT FERRANDO, Lorena. “The national need of sympathy”: value and teaching spanish as a foreign Language in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nueva rev. filol. hisp. [online]. 2023, vol.71, n.1, pp.317-333. Epub 20-Feb-2023. ISSN 2448-6558. https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v71i1.3845.
The two most frequent strategies employed in the debate on the role of foreign languages in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century were: The defense of the pragmatic value of the languages for matters concerning US foreign policy, and the vindication of the cultural tradition linked to the language to be learnt. In the case of Spanish, a third strategy was also brought to bear: The articulation of a panamerican fraternity varying according to the capacity of each individual language to encourage a sympathetic understanding between peoples. This text analyzes the influence on this moral argument of the different nuances of the term sympathy.
Palabras llave : sympathy; Hispanism; United States; international relations; legitimation.