37.1192, Books: Language and Memory: Braber, Van de Putte and van den Elzen (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 20-Mar-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Language and Memory: Braber, Van de Putte and van den Elzen (eds.) (2026)


Title: Language and Memory
Subtitle: Interactions and Mediations
Series Title: Advances in Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/language-and-memory-9781350477421/

Editor(s): Natalie Braber, Thomas Van de Putte & Sophie van den Elzen

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350477421, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This interdisciplinary edited volume combines linguistic and memory
approaches to study how people attribute meaning to the past.
It 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.
The 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 to memory
scholars and their body of theories. The final section centres on how
language itself can be studied as a 'site of memory'. Its symbolic
power is salient for communities to make sense of continuities between
past, present and future.
In addition to offering relevant theoretical recombinations and
concrete methodological ways forward, the chapters indicate the
different scales that come into play in this type of research, and
what is at stake. The case studies from each chapter vary from the
intimate, such as oral histories in the family setting and the
difficult work of translators for asylum seekers, to the networked
contexts of diasporic internet fora, and the grand-historical scale of
the role of heritage in long-standing territorial disputes, as in the
case of Cyprus. By bringing these scales together, readers are poised
to discover new connections and instances of interscalar transfer.
This book makes a powerful case that the connections between language
and memory are crucial across cultures and at different scales.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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