Reconciliation Discourse: The case of the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionThis volume is a research monograph analysing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from an ethnographic/linguistic point of view. The central proposition of this book is that the TRC can be regarded as a mechanism that leads to the hegemony of specific discourses, thus excercising power. The analysis illustrates how, through a certain type of reconciliation discourse constructed at the TRC hearings, a reconciliation-oriented reality took shape in post-TRC South Africa. Basically, the study points to the long-term implications a truth commission can exert on a traumatised post-conflict society. The book is unique on several levels: TRC discourse is explored in-depth on the basis of personal stories from TRC testifiers; a combination of Poststructuralist and Critical Discourse Analysis approaches form the theoretical foundations; and an extensive bibliography provides an impressive database of TRC publications. |
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Page 9
... final group was extremely diverse: Black, Brown, White and Indian, old and young, jurists, ministers, writers, academics, doctors and parliamentarians, people who had been on different sides ofthe struggle, representatives of all main ...
... final group was extremely diverse: Black, Brown, White and Indian, old and young, jurists, ministers, writers, academics, doctors and parliamentarians, people who had been on different sides ofthe struggle, representatives of all main ...
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... final Committee included six High Court judges, eight advocates and five attorneys, and its national office was based in Cape Town (TRC Report 1998,. 1/10:266). The final date for the submission of amnesty applications was midnight on ...
... final Committee included six High Court judges, eight advocates and five attorneys, and its national office was based in Cape Town (TRC Report 1998,. 1/10:266). The final date for the submission of amnesty applications was midnight on ...
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... final decision lay in the hands of the government. Since individual compensations would be dlfilClllt to realise, attention was paid to collective or symbolic reparations. Collective reparations included the improvement of ...
... final decision lay in the hands of the government. Since individual compensations would be dlfilClllt to realise, attention was paid to collective or symbolic reparations. Collective reparations included the improvement of ...
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... Final Report is written entirely in English. It is only the brochure 'Time to Act', which was published by the Institute for Iustice and Reconciliation and which contains a summary of the TRC recommendations as found in the Final Report ...
... Final Report is written entirely in English. It is only the brochure 'Time to Act', which was published by the Institute for Iustice and Reconciliation and which contains a summary of the TRC recommendations as found in the Final Report ...
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... Final Report and the TRC website aimed at an international audience, so the choice of English was self-evident. However, the fact that basically everything was translated into English tells us that we should be cautious when ...
... Final Report and the TRC website aimed at an international audience, so the choice of English was self-evident. However, the fact that basically everything was translated into English tells us that we should be cautious when ...
Contents
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4 The sample | 43 |
5 Layering and HRV discour | 53 |
6 Reconciliation discourse truth and society | 141 |
62 A multilayered reconciliation discourse in South African reality | 155 |
7 Exercising power through discourse | 167 |
8 Towards a conclusion | 185 |
References | 193 |
Index | 229 |
The series Discourse Approaches to Politics Society and Culture | 239 |
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a-typical African National Congress Afrikaans Alex Boraine amnesty apartheid past apartheid victims archons audience Bambiso Beck Blommaert Boraine Buthelezi Cape Town code switching concept conflict constructed Critical Discourse Analysis David Philip Publishers defined definitely diflerent Discourse Analysis emotional explicitly expressed final find findings first forgiveness Foucault groups historical HRV Committee HRV discourse HRV hearings Human Rights Violations ideal testifiers identified identity ideology influence institution interpretation Iohannesburg language layering liberation movement linguistic Mandela MANTHATA master narrative national unity Nelson Mandela officials ofthe TRC perpetrators police political Reconciliation Commission reconciliation discourse reconciliation in South reconciliation-oriented Reflections reparations SABC Siko social South Africa South African society specific statements stories stress struggle talk term reconciliation testifying victims testimony tion tortured traumatic TRC Act TRC archive TRC process TRC Report 1998 TRC’s Truth and Reconciliation Truth Commission Tutu ubuntu University Press Villa-Vicencio Whitfield