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The language of memory in a crosslinguistic perspective

Amberber, Mengistu, 1961- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 9789027291790 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027291799 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027223753 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027223750 (hb : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 284 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	The language of memory / Mengistur Amberber -- Is "remember" a universal human concept? / Anna Wierzbicka -- Language, memory, and concepts of memory / John Sutton -- Standing up your mind / Nicholas Evans -- The conceptualisation of remembering and forgetting in Russian / Anna A. Zalizniak -- A "lexicographic portrait" of forgetting / Cliff Goddard -- 'Memorisation', learning and cultural cognition / Zhengdao Ye -- A corpus-based analysis of German (sich) erinnern / Andrea C. Schalley and Sandra Kuhn -- "Do you remember where you put the key?" / Kjung-Joo Yoon -- The language of memory in East Cree / Marie-Odile Junker -- Remember, remind, and forget in Amharic / Mengistu Amberber.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.