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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788830903321
• Autore: Bietti Lucas M.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-11-038746-8; 3-11-035029-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Collana: Media and Cultural Memory = Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, , 1613-8961 ; ; Volume 16
• Classificazione: EC 2410
• Disciplina: 153.1/3
• Soggetti: Memory; Collective memory; Cognition; Social psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.