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Discourse and human rights violations /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anthonissen, Christine, Blommaert, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Colección:Benjamins current topics ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 142 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789027292735
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9789027222350
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9781282154858
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