Memory Speaks - On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self

As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis.

About the author

Julie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics and coauthor of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Sedivy, Sedivy Julie
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780674293939
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29393-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Popular psychology, Sociolinguistics, Migration, immigration & emigration, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Migration, immigration and emigration, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs