Explicating Ways to Recollect Autobiographical Material During German-Language Biographical Interview

Larisa Rebrina,Nikolay Shamne,S Cindori,N.L Shamne,O Larouk,E.Yu Malushko,L.N Rebrina

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20185001142

Abstract

One of the subsystems of memory that is allocated from the bio-psychological and sociological points of view is autobiographical memory characterized by certain functional patterns. Autobiographical practices constitute socialized, culturally determined, materialized form of fixing autobiographical memory which is determined by memory mechanisms, communication laws and regulations. Their analysis allows making certain observations about the structural characteristics of autobiographical memory. Narration within biographical interviews is based on the interaction of the three forces (telling “I”, being told “I” and coordinating their attitude “I”) aimed at harmonizing the structures of life experiences and narrative structures, at the social acceptance of narration. This makes the implementation of the implicit principles of narrative associated with the structural elements of communication (the rules of integrity and completeness, dramatizing, explicitation). The autobiographical material in memory is constituted with “bright”, “important”, “crucial”, “essential” events that correlate with the level structure of the memory subsystem. Revival of each of these types of autobiographical material in the biographical interviews under study is characterized by a certain specificity.

Highlights

Memory is an actively developed object of interdisciplinary research due to the importance, complexity and multidimensionality of the phenomenon operating at the levels of both society and individual
Quantitative estimates selected for analyzing the biographical interviews indicate a predominant manifestation of re-actualized bright, occasional events (65.1 %), much less verbalizing memories of essential (16.3 %), important (13.9 %), crucial (4.7 %) events in the studied texts
He grabbed the stranger at the back of the stranger's collar and flung to the door, and buddy Carl came up at that time and pulled the stranger off the ladder; it was so violent that the narrator thought the stranger was going to break his bones and neck

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Introduction

Memory is an actively developed object of interdisciplinary research due to the importance, complexity and multidimensionality of the phenomenon operating at the levels of both society and individual. Memory is characterized by a symbolic nature. The Iconic system of memory is formed by indexical, iconic signs, and signs-symbols that operate on the basis of references when the signified (the referent, that is, an event, thing, person, etc.) is replaced by the signifier [1]; and memories are referentially comparable with the verbal tropes (especially metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche), apply association and comparison [2]. Communicative nature, semiotic mechanisms of memory allow speaking about the cognitive potential of linguistics in this field and consistency in integrating existing interdisciplinary linguistic knowledge into the research memory paradigm [3], [4]. Autobiographical memory (AM) assumes manipulating memories of personally meaningful events

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