Language and Memory by Natalie Braber, Thomas Van de Putte, S... - 9781350477421

Language and MemoryInteractions and Mediations\nAuthor(s): Natalie Braber, Thomas Van de Putte, Sophie van den Elzen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350477421, 978-1350477421\nSynopsis\nThis interdisciplinary edited volume combines linguistic and memory approaches to study how people attribute meaning to the past. \nIt includes contributions by linguists who consider memory studies and its theories, and by memory studies scholars without linguistic background who look at sociolinguistic methods and concepts.\n\nThe book is divided into three parts and includes case studies from countries including Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, India, Italy, Poland and Sri Lanka. The first part considers ways in which memory scholars might reach out to discourse analytical and other sociolinguistic methods to make sense of a variety of memory phenomena. The second considers cutting-edge linguistic research which reaches out .