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Publication details [#1831]
Amberber, Mengistu. 2007. The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective (Human Cognitive Processing 21). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. xi, 277 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
ISBN
9027223753
Abstract
This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory reports. 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.
(Publisher Book Description)
Table of contents
This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.
1. Introduction: The language of memory
Mengistu Amberber
2. Is "remember" a universal human concept? "Memory" and culture
Anna Wierzbicka
3. Language, memory, and concepts of memory: Semantic diversity and scientific psychology
John Sutton
5. The conceptualisation of remembering and forgetting in Russian
Anna Zalizniak
6. A Lexicographic portrait of forgetting
Cliff Goddard
7. 'Memorisation', learning and cultural cognition: The notion of bèi ('auditory memorisation') in the written Chinese tradition
Zhengdao Ye
8. A corpus-based analysis of German (sich) erinnern
Andrea C. Schalley and Sandra Kuhn
9. "Do you remember where you put the key?": The Korean model of remembering
Kjung-Joo Yoon
10. The language of memory in East Cree
Marie-Odile Junker
11. Remember, remind, and forget in Amharic
Mengistu Amberber