Discursive Remembering: Individual and Collective Remembering as a Discursive, Cognitive and Historical Process

Lucas M. Bietti

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Discursive Remembering

Individual and Collective Remembering as a Discursive, Cognitive and Historical Process

Lucas M. Bietti

Volume 16 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110350296

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About this book

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.

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Lucas M. Bietti, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Constructing a Collective Memory in Argentina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
3. A Cognitive Pragmatics of Remembering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
4. Remembering in Commemorative Speeches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. Memories of an ‘Ordinary’ Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6. Memories of a Political Activist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
7. Family Remembering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
8. Generational Remembering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
9. Conclusions: Bringing Things Together Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Literary and Cultural Studies, History and Political Sciences.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 174
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Tables: 12
Keywords: Collective remembering; memory; Argentina

eBook

Published: October 14, 2014
ISBN: 9783110350296

Hardcover

Published: August 25, 2014
ISBN: 9783110350173