Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication

The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition. Firstly, it discusses the notion of memory and the idea of reimagining, as well as coming to terms with the past. Secondly, it studies the relationship between perception, cognition and language use. It then investigates a variety of practices of language users, language learners and translators, such as the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of linguistics and literary studies, lecturers teaching undergraduate and master's students on courses in language and literature.

Focuses on the notion of memory, shedding light on the idea of reimagining and coming to terms with the past Studies the relationship between cognition, perception, and language use Offers examples of concrete practices of language users, learners and translators, including the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang

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Ey, Homeboy, Ich Bin Kein Hustler: English Borrowings in German Hip-Hop Songs.- Spanish Borrowings in American Slang and Their Semantic Fields.- Listen 'ere, lads and Better watch it, mate: Constructing Identity in a Quintessentially British Translation.- Constructing One's Self-Identity in Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Flann O'Brien.- The Image of Eastern European Dissidents in British Political Drama.- The Best Town by a Dam-Site: Celebrating Memory in a Midwestern Small Town.- Performativity Revisited: J. L. Austin and his Legacy.- Memoirs of the Beat Generation Women as an Antidote to Nostalgia for the Fifties.- Wartburg 312/1 in Ida as a Symbolic Part of Coming to Terms with the Past in Cinematic Discourse.- Reimagining the Sixties. Psychedelic Experience in Stoner Rock. <p