Discourse and human rights violations / edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert.
2007
DT1974.2 .D57 2007eb
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Title
Discourse and human rights violations / edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert.
ISBN
9789027292735 (electronic bk.)
9027292736 (electronic bk.)
9027222355 (hb ; alk. paper)
9789027222350 (hb ; alk. paper)
1282154850
9781282154858
9786612154850
6612154853
9789027222350 (hb ; alk. paper)
9027292736 (electronic bk.)
9027222355 (hb ; alk. paper)
9789027222350 (hb ; alk. paper)
1282154850
9781282154858
9786612154850
6612154853
9789027222350 (hb ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (ix, 142 pages)
Call Number
DT1974.2 .D57 2007eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)320323699
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 5.
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Print version: Discourse and human rights violations. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007
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