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Rossiâ - Polʹša: nesovpadenie pamâtej. Lingvističeskij aspekt

2017

„Memory turn” in the humanities allows to approach old problems from a new perspective. The author argues that the sphere of complicated Russian-Polish relations should be presented as a conflict between two distinct collective memories. The author considers “memory” as strictly interconnected with so called “non-memory” (i.e. as set of facts not related to memory or superseded by it). In principle, collective memory / non-memory can be subjected to linguistic analysis because it is verbalized and therefore it has its different verbal exponents. The author refers back to his concept of “mental geography” developed 20 years ago and argues that a multi-stage process of mapping two national me…