口述歷史真偽論爭之迷思─由溫哈熊被控誹謗案看起
The myth of the debates on factuality of oral history

李郁青
Li, Yu-Ching

自古以來，無論中外，凡涉及史料蒐集問題，口述訪談經常是不可或缺的重要採集法。然而，口述歷史非歷史定論，其突破傳統一家之言，主張由個人角度出發理解與詮釋歷史，有別於傳統歷史之觀點。本文認為，若欲解決口述歷史文本有效性之問題，僅憑藉「多方查證」等科學方法，仍是一種符合客觀性意理、旨於維護單一文本權威性之傳統思維。本文主張，我們或許\應由「使讀者了解口述史方法具有主觀性」來著手。

This article asserts that history is merely the representation of the past, but not equal to the real past. And the perspective of oral history is not meant to be the historical last word. However, it focuses on the individual perspective to the past, and lets everybody have his own perspective on recognizing the past. In other words, the worldview of oral history is different to the traditional view of history. This article believes that it ’s hard to resolve the problem of text authority and validity of oral history only through the scientific method (ex: cross-checking). This article believes that it is feasible to pursue the text validity of oral history by letting readers understand the subjectivity of oral history in its methodology.

口述歷史，方法論，文本有效性，後現代，社會建構

methodology, oral history, post-modern, social construction of reality, text validity

2004.06.25

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