Amberber Mengistu (Editor). The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective

John Benjamins, 2007. — xi, 284 pages. — (Human Cognitive Processing). — ISBN: 978-90-272-2375-3.This volume explores the language of memory in a cross-linguistic perspective. The term memory is to be understood broadly as the “capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information”, but also includes the inability to retrieve information (e.g. ‘to forget’).At the outset, the relationship between memory and language is intuitively clear in so far as language is one of the most efficient media for encoding experience. For example, psychologists have known that, controlling for ‘initial memorability’, talking about a past experience will significantly enhance the memory for that experience.Introduction: The language of memory
Is “remember” a universal human concept? “Memory” and culture
Language, memory, and concepts of memory: Semantic diversity and scientific psychology
Standing up your mind: Remembering in Dalabon
The conceptualisation of remembering and forgetting in Russian
A “lexicographic portrait” of forgetting
‘Memorisation’, learning and cultural cognition: The notion of bèi (‘auditory memorisation’) in the written Chinese tradition
A corpus-based analysis of German (sich) erinnern
“Do you remember where you put the key?”: The Korean model of remembering
The language of memory in East Cree
Remember, remind, and forget in Amharic berb