The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic PerspectiveMengistu Amberber John Benjamins Publishing, 14.11.2007 - 284 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
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3 Language memory and concepts of memory | 41 |
4 Standing up your mind | 67 |
5 The conceptualisation of remembering and forgetting in Russian | 97 |
6 A lexicographic portrait of forgetting | 119 |
7 Memorisation learning and cultural cognition | 139 |
8 A corpusbased analysis of German sich erinnern | 181 |
9 Do you remember where you put the key? | 209 |
10 The language of memory in East Cree | 235 |
11 Remember remind and forget in Amharic | 263 |
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Subject index | 283 |
The series Human Cognitive Processing | 285 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amberber Animacy Anna Wierzbicka Arrernte aspect Australian béi bengdi Cambridge Chinese Chinese language chischisu Cliff Goddard COBUILD Cognitive Linguistics cognitive science complement components concept conceptualisation construction context corpus Cree language cross-linguistic cultural Dalabon definition Dictionary difficult discussion East Cree encoded English word entity erinnern event example experiencer experiential explication expressions field final find first forget Goddard Grammar happened human implies intransitive intransitive verb Iohn KAIST kiekha knowledge Korean language of memory learning lexeme lexical lexical semantics linguistic meaning mental morpheme Natural Semantic Metalanguage noun object one’s mind pamia pamiatka participant past perfective person Polish polysemy pomnju prefix psychology reading refer reflect reflexive remind retrieve Russian S/he sayngkakna Schalley scientific script semantic analysis semantic primes sense sentence speaker specific suffix syntactic things thought tion topic transitive translated Universal Grammar Valin Valin and Wilkins verbal Wierzbicka wspomnienia zabyl