Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mianowski, Jacek (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Borodo, Michał (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schreiber, Paweł (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Issues in Literature and Culture,
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Popular Culture.; Cognitive grammar.; Performing arts.; Motion pictures.; Language and education.; Literary Theory.; Popular Culture .; Cognitive Linguistics.; Performing Arts.; Film Theory.; Language Education.

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...

Table of Contents:

• "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.