In this essay, I aim to shore up the epistemological foundations of memory studies so that it can more productively fulfill its promise to understand the dynamics of shared meaning-making. I argue for theoretical and, hence, methodological, advancement toward a more precise vocabulary for describing the movement of meaning over time and space and between persons as they engage with resources and each other in order to fix and revise shared interpretations. Drawing on the conceptual vocabulary of narrative, I describe some of the central tenets of this “back to the phenomenon” approach to social memory.

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记忆是一种解释行为

在这篇文章中，我的目标是巩固记忆研究的认识论基础，以便它能够更有效地履行其理解共享意义创造动态的承诺。我主张从理论上和方法论上，向更精确的词汇发展，以描述意义随时间和空间的变化以及人与人之间的运动，因为他们利用资源和彼此，以固定和修改共同的解释。我利用叙事的概念词汇，描述了这种“回归现象”社会记忆方法的一些核心原则。