Description
| Product ID: | 9780674980280 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Memory Speaks |
| Subtitle: | On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self |
| Authors: | Author: Julie Sedivy |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Language teaching and learning, Migration, immigration and emigration, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Popular psychology, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Migration, immigration & emigration, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Popular psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-19 |
