Presupozycje w analizie potocznych dyskursów pamięciowych

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how common sense presuppositions (assumptions) provide an understanding of past-related texts repeated within one linguistic community. Any linguistic approach to social memories must be interested in commonly shared presuppositions functioning as implicit or tacit knowledge, which is an inevitable layer of any social memory discourse, dominated by presentism and essentialism. The paper proposes that the importance of commonly shared presuppositions grows in proportion to the growing role of slogans, catchwords and icons in contemporary communication practices. Thus, commonly shared presuppositions can provide the necessary contexts for elliptical statements related to the past. This entails the growing importance of mythologies within social memories, in the sense proposed by Roland Barthes.