Language and Memory : Interactions and Mediations.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braber, Natalie, editor.

Elzen, Sophie van den, editor.

Putte, Thomas Van de, editor.

Series:

Advances in Sociolinguistics.

Advances in Sociolinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Group identity.

Memory.

Psycholinguistics.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Combines linguistic and memory approaches to study how people attribute meaning to the past.

Contents:

Introduction: Setting the scene, Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Thomas van de Putte (King’s College London, UK) and Sophie van den Elzen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Part I: Memory Scholars Reaching out to Linguists 1. Collective Memories, Narratives and their Representation of Wartime Collaboration, Louise Ballière (UCLouvain, Belgium) 2. ‘The Words we Choose’: Discursive Embeddedness of Family Memories Related to Belgian Colonisation of the Congo, Wouter Reggers (UCLouvain, Belgium) 3. The Past is Not Our Place: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Positioning in Post-conflict Situations, Samara Velte (University of the Basque Country, Spain) 4. History and Story: Narrative Compositional Elements of Group Identity States and their Role in Collective Memory, Orsolya Vincze (Pécs, Károli Gáspár University, Hungary) 5. Memory as a Dialogical and Discursive Practice, Nicolas Villaroel (Austalian National University) Part II: Linguistics Reaching out to Memory Scholars 6. Encounters between Past and Present: Co-constructing Memories in Collaborative Narratives among Polish Immigrant Women, Dominika Baran (Duke University, USA) 7. Language, Identity and Conflicted Heritage: Two Case Studies from Cyprus, Constadina Charalambous (European University, Cyprus) and Elena Ioannidou (University of Cyprus) 8. Remembering Together: Making Sense of Exile as a Family, Adriana Patino-Santos (University of Southampton, UK) and Peter Browning (UCL, UK) 9. Multilingual Memory and the Disclosure of Past Experiences in Interpreter-mediated Interaction, Lotte Remue (Ghent University, Belgium) Part III: Language as Lieu de Mémoire 10. Language as Memory, Language as Discourse: Representing the Matter of Language, Nadia Cannata (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 11. Linguistic Nostalgia: The ‘Jecke Dictionary’ as a Site of Memory, Tamar Katriel (University of Haifa, Israel) 12. In Search of the Language of Loss: An Ethnographic Study of the Siraiki Language in Migrated Families, Bhawna Khattar (Ambedkar University, Delhi, India) 13. Investigating the Fiumano Dialect as Lieu de Mémoire, Angelo Massaro (University of British Colombia, Canada)

ISBN:

1-350-47746-X

1-350-47744-3

9781350477445

OCLC:

1569915855