Discourse and human rights violations / edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert.
Material type: TextSeries: Benjamins current topics ; v. 5.Publication details: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 142 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9789027292735
- 9027292736
- 9027222355
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- South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africa
- Apartheid -- South Africa
- Apartheid in literature
- Human rights -- South Africa
- Discourse analysis -- South Africa
- War crimes -- Austria -- Public opinion
- Discourse analysis -- Austria
- Réconciliation -- Aspect politique -- Afrique du Sud
- Apartheid -- Afrique du Sud
- Apartheid dans la littérature
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Afrique du Sud
- Crimes de guerre -- Autriche -- Opinion publique
- HISTORY -- General
- HISTORY
- Apartheid
- Discourse analysis
- Human rights
- Apartheid in literature
- Reconciliation -- Political aspects
- War crimes -- Public opinion
- Austria
- South Africa
- 968.06 22
- DT1974.2 .D57 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references.
The debate on truth and reconciliation : a survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings : on the hearability of hidden transcripts / Jan Blommaert, Mary Bock, and Kay McCormick -- Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies / Christine Anthonissen -- South African novelists and the grand narrative of apartheid / Annie Gagiano -- Linguistic bearings and testimonial practices / Fiona Ross -- History in the making/the making of history : the "German Wehrmacht" in collective and individual memories in Austria / Ruth Wodak.
First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006), this collection of papers focuses, from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, on aspects of language and communication in official processes of dealing with traumatic pasts. It is a text that belongs to the genre of talking about pain, about state violence, about uncovering suppressed truths. Linguists and a number of other social scientists investigate discourses, mostly ones generated during hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), scrutinizing them for how trauma.
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