Language and Memory

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Interactions and Mediations

Professor Natalie Braber, Dr Thomas Van de Putte, Dr Sophie van den Elzen

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Bloomsbury Academic
19 March 2026

Sociolinguistics; Memory

Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics

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 and its theories, and by memory 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.

Edited by: Professor Natalie Braber, Dr Thomas Van de Putte, Dr Sophie van den Elzen
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350477438
ISBN 10: 1350477435
Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 19 March 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Natalie Braber is Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Thomas Van de Putte is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King’s College London, UK. Sophie van den Elzen is Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Reviews for Language and Memory: Interactions and Mediations

Illustrating fundamental concepts with rich and nuanced empirical analyses, this book illuminates the intricacy of enduring legacies of conflict in a highly productive interdisciplinary collaboration between memory studies and sociolinguistics in its different guises (ethnographic, interactional, discursive and dialectal). Taken together, its chapters create a very substantial and timely resource for our efforts to understand what troubled histories can mean. * Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied & Sociolinguistics, King’s College London, UK *