ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ЯЗЫКА ПАМЯТИ: ОПЫТ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
LINGUISTIC MEMORY STUDIES: TRACK RECORD AND PROSPECTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses potential prospects of expanding the official limits of contemporary language theory as to bring into its focus phenomena syncretically connected with the language and speech faculty but formally standing outside the linguistic field of study. Specifically, the author raises the question of legitimizing the area of linguistic research dealing with studies of verbal representation of memory, mnemonic phenomena and memorial practices. The emergence of linguistic memory studies as a new discipline is in line with the present-day vibrant research in humanities and agrees with prime trends in cognitive science. The paper states that integrating various studies of memory as a linguocognitive system of organizing personal and collective experience into a common framework could homogenize results achieved in different fields and lay a solid foundation for future advances. It is suggested that linguistic memory studies should rely upon the cognitive-communicative paradigm currently gaining momentum in linguistics. The basic principles of the cognitive-communicative approach include that of communication cognitivity and communicative determinedness of cognitive processes. The paper enunciates issues of current interest in studies of memory that could be resolved within the cognitive-communicative paradigm and discusses perspectives for future research related to cultural, social, psychological, gender, age and professional factors.

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