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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Anthonissen, Christine, Blommaert, Jan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; v. 5.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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