Memory Speaks by Julie Sedivy
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Description 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.
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"At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery."-The Economist"Insightful and informative Sedivy examines what happens to memory, dreams, and even the sense of self when you enter another language."-Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation"Engagingly describes the disorienting and sometimes shattering experience of feeling one's native language atrophy as a new language takes hold Sedivy elegantly captures why the language(s) we use are so dear to us and how they play a central role in our identities."-Science"A profound elegy to memories that endure despite displacement and the many time zones that define our lives."-André AcimanJulie Sedivy was two years old when her parents left Czechoslovakia. By the time she graduated from college, she rarely spoke Czech, and English had taken over her life. When her father died unexpectedly and her strongest link to her native tongue was severed, she discovered that more was at stake than the loss of language: she began to feel she was losing herself.In Memory Speaks, Sedivy explores the brain's capacity to learn-and forget-languages at various stages of life, poignantly combining a rich body of psychological research with a moving story that is at once deeply personal and universally resonant.
Author Biography
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.
Details ISBN 0674293932 ISBN-13 9780674293939 Title Memory Speaks Author Julie Sedivy Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 368 Publisher Harvard University Press GE_Item_ID:157776031; About Us
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