Bietti, L. M. (2012). Towards a cognitive pragmatics of collective remembering. Pragmatics & Cognition
20 (1), 32-61.
Abstract
This article aims to provide a cognitive and discourse based theory to
collective memory research. Despite the fact that a large proportion of studies
in collective memory research in social, cognitive, and discourse psychology
are based on investigations of (interactional) cognitive and discourse
processes, neither linguistics nor cognitive and social psychologists have
proposed an integrative, interdisciplinary and discursive-based theory to
memory research. I argue that processes of remembering are always embodied and
action oriented reconstructions of the past, which are highly dynamic and
malleable by means of communication and context. This new approach aims to
provide the grounds for a new ecologically valid theory on memory studies which
accounts for the mutual interdependencies between communication, cognition,
meaning, and interaction, as guiding collective remembering processes in the
real-world activities.
Keywords: collective remembering, context, Cognitive pragmatics, embodied
and distributed cognition, mental models, interaction
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