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Author: Julie Sedivy Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 067498028X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
From an award-winning writer and linguist, a scientific and personal meditation on the phenomenon of language loss and the possibility of renewal. As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brainÕs capacity to learnÑand forgetÑlanguages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the worldÕs less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom.
Author: Julie Sedivy Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 067498028X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
From an award-winning writer and linguist, a scientific and personal meditation on the phenomenon of language loss and the possibility of renewal. As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brainÕs capacity to learnÑand forgetÑlanguages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the worldÕs less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom.
Author: Safana Abdullah Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1669863662 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 111
Book Description
The Language of Memories is a collection of the letters of a young girl, who possesses deep thoughts and experiences despite her young age. A girl who abandoned her happy homeland according to history books, due to the unhappiness in the reality of war. Each word in this book does not only carry letters, but rather the pains and memories of the past, while tightly holding onto the hope that tomorrow will be better. The author navigates the narration of her deepest memories in Yemen, her studies, her games, and her passions. She confronts that with the pain of immigration, separation is a consequence she unwillingly had to face. The book leaves your feelings scattered, in between the lines, the reader will gain a profound understanding of what homeland means to those who have left it with no choice. The messages of the letters will need readers to prepare oneself for diligence and attentiveness, as the stories leave an imprint. Those who have not read the previous language of Safana will experience kindness, depth, nostalgia, and achievement through the books.
Author: Péter Nádas Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312427964 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 722
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A novel exploring human relations. Its hero is a Hungarian writer who lives through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and has a homosexual affair with a German poet in East Berlin.
Author: Melissa Duff Publisher: Frontiers Media SA ISBN: 2889661210 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 263
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Language and memory have historically been studied apart, as unique cognitive abilities, and with distinct research traditions and methods. Over the past several decades, however, a growing body of evidence suggests that language and memory are heavily intertwined and may even rely on shared cognitive and neural mechanisms. Cutting across theoretical and methodological approaches, these findings offer novel insights into the interactions and interdependencies of language and memory. These advances also have considerable theoretical and clinical implications for the neurobiology of language and memory, their development, representation, and maintenance across the lifespan, the intervention and rehabilitation of disorders of language and memory, and the evolution of these two quintessential human abilities.
Author: Peter Leese Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 148753941X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 423
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This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often intertwined modes of language, the contributors provide a variety of disciplinary approaches to foster innovative debates and provoke new insights. Prevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. Languages of Trauma explores what this means in practice by scrutinizing varied historical moments from the First World War onwards and particular cultural contexts from across Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa – striving to help decolonize the traditional Western-centred history of trauma, dissolving it into multifaceted transnational histories of trauma cultures.
Author: Jeanette Altarriba Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107008905 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 387
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A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of memory, language and cognitive processing across various populations of bilingual speakers.
Author: Safana Abdullah Publisher: Xlibris Us ISBN: 9781669863670 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The Language of Memories is a collection of the letters of a young girl, who possesses deep thoughts and experiences despite her young age. A girl who abandoned her happy homeland according to history books, due to the unhappiness in the reality of war. Each word in this book does not only carry letters, but rather the pains and memories of the past, while tightly holding onto the hope that tomorrow will be better. The author navigates the narration of her deepest memories in Yemen, her studies, her games, and her passions. She confronts that with the pain of immigration, separation is a consequence she unwillingly had to face. The book leaves your feelings scattered, in between the lines, the reader will gain a profound understanding of what homeland means to those who have left it with no choice. The messages of the letters will need readers to prepare oneself for diligence and attentiveness, as the stories leave an imprint. Those who have not read the previous language of Safana will experience kindness, depth, nostalgia, and achievement through the books.
Author: Vaidehi Ramanathan Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429772866 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the 1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common citizens and were committed to India, their voices and contributions have remained on the margins of Indian collective memory. This book offers microhistorical readings of extended language forms generally underexplored in sociolinguistics (such as letters, telegrams, missives, and oral histories) to reorient facets of individual memories, lives, and endeavours against larger officialised understandings of the past. Using previously unpublished corpus of archival material and interviews with English private citizens from that period, this volume on historical sociolinguistics will be of interest to scholars and researchers of language and linguistics, South Asian studies, post-colonial literary studies, culture studies, and modern history.
Author: Julie Sedivy Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674269640 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
From an award-winning writer and linguist, a scientific and personal meditation on the phenomenon of language loss and the possibility of renewal. As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brain’s capacity to learn—and forget—languages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the world’s less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom.
Author: Julie Sedivy
Author: Julie Sedivy
Author: Safana Abdullah
Author: Péter Nádas
Author: Melissa Duff
Author: Peter Leese
Author: Jeanette Altarriba
Author: Safana Abdullah
Author: Vaidehi Ramanathan
Author: Julie Sedivy
Author: John Robert Anderson