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The aim of this article is to examine the complex connection between processes of autobiographical remembering in relation to historical events and the narratives constructed and communicated in such practices. In the narratives that follow, we discover the means by which a former political dissident during the late 1970s in Argentina constructs a narrative self that fosters a sense of living in history. This is accomplished as a result of connecting and synchronizing the subject's autobiographical experiences with the larger social milieu, thereby making them more meaningful. By integrating theories of autobiographical memory and narrative in social and cognitive psychology with discursive and pragmatic theories in linguistics, we demonstrate how such a synthetic approach can contribute to the development of sound empirically based theories of autobiographical memory and narrative in naturalistic communicative interactions.

This article examines the interaction between the processes of autobiographic memory in relation to the military dictatorship of 1976-1983 in Argentina and the narrations constructed and communicated by these practices. In this context the article goes over the experiences of a former political dissident in 1970s in Argentina and constructs a self-narration which leads to a sense of this life in history. The results of the connection and synchronization of the autobiographical experiences in a much broader social context made them much more meaningful. Thus, these autobiographical narratives also indicate the ways in which significant historical events mold individual subjectivities.

International immigration has led to post-modern societies being more diverse and multi-cultural. The aim of the research this article is based on is to use the discourse produced in four discussion groups to identify and analyze Latin American immigrants' social signifiers about their socio-cultural integration into New York City. The author uses a phenomenological, qualitative, empirical methodology and deals with the material in an interdisciplinary framework. The results suggest that, for our narrators, socio-cultural integration is linked to models of assimilationism and, to a lesser extent, to liberal multiculturalism.

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