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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2007.
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Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 5. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9789027292735 9027292736 9027222355 9789027222350 1282154850 9781282154858 9786612154850 6612154853 |