Discourse and Human Rights Violations
1st Edition
Published on 6. April 2007
X, 142 pages
978-90-272-9273-5 (ISBN)
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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 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 is articulated and sometimes overcome, for how confrontational discourses are publicly managed, for how, after gross human rights violations, reconciliation can be mediated. Language is viewed as an instrument of confronting a traumatic past, of negotiating conflict, and of initiating processes of healing for individuals as well as in communities.
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- Discourse and Human Rights Violations
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- About the Authors
- The language of remembering and forgetting
- Introduction
- Notes
- References
- The debate on truth and reconciliation
- Introduction
- An introduction to the TRC Literature
- Pre-TRC literature
- TRC literature: Chronological accounts
- TRC literature: Religious perspectives
- TRC literature: Theoretical perspectives
- TRC literature: Human rights/legal perspectives
- TRC literature: Social perspectives
- TRC literature: Political perspectives
- TRC literature: Anthropological perspectives
- TRC literature: Official publications
- Overlaps and lacunae
- Conclusion
- References
- Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hidden transcripts
- 3. Making sense in the TRC
- 4. Framing and contextualizing stories: The commissioners' role
- 5. A deeply hidden transcript
- 6. Coherence and structure
- 7. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies
- Introduction
- 2. The Trojan Horse Incident
- 3. Verbal mediation of the Trojan Horse Incident 12 years later
- 4. Discourse Sociolinguistics
- 5. Analysis of Trojan Horse discourses
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Addendum A: Illustrative data
- South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid
- Notes
- References
- Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices
- I. Different Subject Positions
- II. Choosing Positions
- III. Memories that heal and those that inflict pain
- Notes
- References
- History in the making/The making of history
- Introduction
- Theoretical considerations
- Research questions
- Context and Discourse Model
- Methods of analysis, justification strategies and some illustrative examples
- Three generations: A case study
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
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