palabras mayores - in this context

English translation: key concepts / principles

21:29 Dec 5, 2015
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Government / Politics
Spanish term or phrase: palabras mayores - in this context
This is a referenced part of a text on public policymaking. The paper being referenced here is Orden Social y Imaginarios Sociales, Pintos de Cea-Naharro 1995, link below. The terms show up only once, so I think he may be referencing someone else, but there is no footnote.
Castilian Spanish to UK English, please
TIA! : )

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Original
Este elemento del imaginario no sólo abarca el campo de la moral y de la política, sino que penetra todo el mundo de la cotidiano en lo que tiene de “saber de recetas” a través de las cuales se vuelven concretas las “palabras mayores” de los discursos ideológicos.
(Pintos de Cea-Naharro, 1995)

Rough draft
This aspect of the imaginary addresses not only the moral and political, but also penetrates the world of the everyday, in "knowing recipes” through which the “big words” of ideological discourses are given form.
S Ben Price
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Local time: 10:19
English translation:key concepts / principles
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Ana Vozone
Local time: 09:19
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4 +5key concepts / principles
Ana Vozone
4 +1big words/slogans
Francois Boye
3 +1lofty words
Darius Saczuk


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lofty words


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Darius Saczuk
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Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28

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agree  neilmac: Nice, and not overly pejorative (see below)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
big words/slogans


Explanation:
my take

Francois Boye
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agree  Robert Carter: Looking for all sorts of solutions, when I saw "big words" it hit me like a brick. Politicians are all full of big words, as opposed to big actions. What did Marx say about philosophers?
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
key concepts / principles


Explanation:
Another suggestion.

Ana Vozone
Local time: 09:19
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 28
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Thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, I think this is the meaning, the "saying what you really mean to say plainly and simply" version. I need to maintain the author's voice though. If it were me, this would be what it would say.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andy Watkinson: Of course. It's not the usual meaning of "palabras mayores" (de ser así, no iría entrecomillada la expresión) but the core issues, concepts, principles etc.........
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agree  Danik 2014
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agree  Phoenix III: Core issues, concepts as I said initially
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agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
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agree  neilmac: The least subjective/emotive version (so may be the best option) ...
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