The relationship between the social memory and sociocognition: in search of the social context in the Knowledge Organization

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the relation between social memory and social cognition and the perspectives of understanding the context for knowledge organization. The research is exploratory and adopts as a methodological procedure the bibliographic research. It understands social memory as a source of knowledge that presupposes the collective experience of a group. The sociocognition, the studies on the language and the discussions that this field contemplates from the perspective of the paradigm of the social cognition are characterized. It points to the intersection between social memory and sociocognition, at the point where, for the interpretation of memory, it is necessary to understand its context, which has the sociocognitive characteristics of its interlocutors, that is, the worldview of the interpreter. The field of sociocognitive discursive memory as the framework where the socio-communicative practices of representation and memory are constituted is elucidated. The study shows that the questions about the discourse, the contexts of use, the communicative and social intentions made by the speakers are elements of study in the field of sociocognitive discursive memory. Notes that the basis indicated by sociocognition for the study of social memory provides the basis for the organization of knowledge with respect to the ways in which discursive communities produce and organize their socially constructed knowledge.