The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic PerspectiveMengistu Amberber 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. |
Contents
Remembering in Dalabon | 67 |
The conceptualisation of remembering and forgetting in Russian | 97 |
A lexicographic portrait of forgetting | 119 |
The notion of bèi | 139 |
A corpusbased analysis of German sich erinnern | 181 |
The Korean model | 209 |
The language of memory in East Cree | 235 |
Remember remind and forget in Amharic | 263 |
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activity analysis appears approach aspect bèi Cambridge causative characters Chinese cognitive comes comparable complement components concept construction context Cree cultural Dalabon Dictionary discussion distinction encoded English equivalent erinnern event evidence example existence experience experiencer explication expressions fact feeling forget Goddard Grammar happened human implies important indicates interesting involves kiekha kind knowledge language learning lexical linguistic meaning memory mental mind natural noun object occur one's Oxford participant particular past person perspective Polish possible practice present psychology question reading recall refer reflect remember remind representation represented retrieve Russian sciences seems semantic sense sentence shows speaker speaking specific structure suggest texts things thought tion topic tradition transitive translated understanding University Press verb volume Wierzbicka word writing