| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) |
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Benjamins Current topics ; v. 5 |
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 5.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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| SUBJECT |
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission fast |
| Subject |
Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africa
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Apartheid -- South Africa.
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Apartheid in literature.
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Human rights -- South Africa
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Discourse analysis -- South Africa
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War crimes -- Austria -- Public opinion
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Discourse analysis -- Austria
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HISTORY -- General.
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HISTORY.
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Apartheid
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Discourse analysis
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Human rights
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Apartheid in literature
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects
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War crimes -- Public opinion
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Austria
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anthonissen, Christine.
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Blommaert, Jan.
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| ISBN |
9789027292735 |
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9027292736 |
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9027222355 |
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9789027222350 |
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1282154850 |
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9781282154858 |
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9786612154850 |
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6612154853 |
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