Date: 14-Dec-2007 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective:Amberber (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Series Title: Human Cognitive Processing 21
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Mengistu Amberber
Hardback: ISBN: 9027223750 9789027223753 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027223750 9789027223753 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 142.00
Abstract:
This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. While there is a robust body of psycholinguistic research that bears on how memory and language are related, there is no comparative study of how speakers themselves conceptualize memory as reflected in their use of language to talk about memory. This book addresses a key question: how do speakers of different languages talk about the experience of having prior experiences coming to mind ('remembering') or failing to come to mind ('forgetting')? A complex array of answers is provided through detailed grammatical and semantic investigation of different languages, including English, German, Polish, Russian and also a number of non-Indo-European languages, Amharic, Cree, Dalabon, Korean, and Mandarin. In addition, the book calls for a broader interdisciplinary engagement by urging that cognitive semantics be integrated with other sciences of memory.
Linguistic Field(s):
Anthropological Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
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