1 “My Favorite Things”. The proximal term of tacit knowledge Peter Hanenberg Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Universidade Católica Portuguesa in: Maria Franco / Bernd Sieberg (ed.): Proximidade eDistância. Estudos sobre a Língua e a Cultura . Lisboa: UCE 2011, 169-180. The title of my article might remind some readers of the famous John Coltrane whose LP with the same title was one of the great Jazz events in the early sixties. Maybe others will remember instead the musical “The Sound of Music” composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein from the late fifties, maybe even in its Portuguese adaptation on stage some few years ago. Or some others might even remember both music title - or should I say the unit that Coltrane built upon the Rodgers-Hammerstein original. And if one remembers any adaptation of the melody, one might even hear it, somehow like being in an inner ear. When I chose the title for this short reflection, I tried to link attention to it with some other experience that I supposed might be familiar to the reader. And now by remembering some moments of the underlying musical experience, I tried to reinforce this linking - even for those who even might not have thought on it before. Actually I was trying to support the arguments that I am going to develop by a previous aesthetic experience - and of course my intention is to transfer some of the good musical mood to what I am going to develop. Even before I started arguing, I already occupied the reader's brain by the repetition or by the revocation of a former auditory experience, that - as I said - some might even have heard inside their mind. “My favourite things” is one of those music pieces that we all recognize as something experienced before and that – once in our inner ear – is hard to forget. One might be “hearing ” “My favourite things” even when this paper is finished, rethinking the title or some of its arguments, for instance, or even just by chance, at night, when the reader is preparing to go to bed. Tomorrow, “My favourite