Discursive remembering : individual and collective remembering as a discursive, cognitive and historical process / Lucas M. Bietti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bietti, Lucas M., author.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; Volume 16.

Media and Cultural Memory = Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 1613-8961 ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Collective memory.

Cognition.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book aims at building a bridge between the social and political aspects of remembering and the cognitive and discourse processes driving such activities. By analyzing these cognitive and discursive processes, Bietti explores practices of individual and collective remembering in institutional and private settings in relation to periods of political violence in Argentina. This books begins to fill the conceptual gap between cognitive oriented approaches to remembering that draw conclusions about how memory functions in the mind without a detailed discourse analysis of the communicative interaction in which this process unfolds, and the discourse and pragmatic oriented approaches that are mainly interested in analyzing the rhetorical features of conversational remembering, in some cases disregarding that there are underlying cognitive mechanisms that drive the construction of discourses about past experiences. The empirical analysis shows that individual and collective remembering in relation to periods of political violence in Argentina vary in pragmatic ways due to the fact that these accounts of the past were constructed with reference to the communicative situation. Thus, this book also aims at shedding new light on the current practices of commemoration and remembrance related to periods of political violence in Argentina, in public and private settings.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Constructing a Collective Memory in Argentina

3. A Cognitive Pragmatics of Remembering

4. Remembering in Commemorative Speeches

5. Memories of an 'Ordinary' Man

6. Memories of a Political Activist

7. Family Remembering

8. Generational Remembering

9. Conclusions: Bringing Things Together

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110387469

3110387468

9783110350296

3110350297

OCLC:

979626699