Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. About the editor and contributors; 3. 1. Introduction: The language of memory (by Amberber, Mengistu); 4. 2. Is "remember" a universal human concept? "Memory" and culture (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 5. 3. Language, memory, and concepts of memory: Semantic diversity and scientific psychology (by Sutton, John); 6. 4. Standing up your mind: Remembering in Dalabon (by Evans, Nicholas); 7. 5. The conceptualisation of remembering and forgetting in Russian (by Zalizniak, Anna A.); 8. 6. A "lexicographic portrait" of forgetting (by Goddard, Cliff); 9. 7. 'Memorisation', learning and cultural cognition: The notion of bei ('auditory memorisation') in the written Chinese tradition (by Ye, Zhengdao); 10. 8. A corpus-based analysis of German (sich) erinnern (by Schalley, Andrea C.); 11. 9. "Do you remember where you put the key?": The Korean model of remembering (by Yoon, Kyung-Joo); 12. 10. The language of memory in East Cree (by Junker, Marie-Odile); 13. 11. Remember, remind, and forget in Amharic (by Amberber, Mengistu); 14. Author index; 15. Language index; 16. Subject index

Reviews

In conclusion [...], this volume devoted to 'The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective' is a book which has long been sought and will serve the goals it is intended for most suitably.
*Ludwig Fesenheimer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, on Linguist List, Issue 19.2927*