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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... Blommaert Andreas H. Iucker University Of Ghent University of Zurich Paul Chilton ].R. Martin University of Lancaster University of Sydney LVV. DOWHES Luisa Martin Rojo UniverSitY Of East Anglia Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Volume 27 ...
... Blommaert Andreas H. Iucker University Of Ghent University of Zurich Paul Chilton ].R. Martin University of Lancaster University of Sydney LVV. DOWHES Luisa Martin Rojo UniverSitY Of East Anglia Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Volume 27 ...
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... Blommaert, whose academic network brought me into contact with John Benjamins. Throughout my doctoral research Professor Blommaert was a source of inspiration and enlightenment, stimulating my thinking at each stage of the project, but ...
... Blommaert, whose academic network brought me into contact with John Benjamins. Throughout my doctoral research Professor Blommaert was a source of inspiration and enlightenment, stimulating my thinking at each stage of the project, but ...
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... Blommaert's theory on discursive layering and of the notion of the archive as developed by Foucault. My basic aim became the deconstruction of the HRV archive to reveal the discursive rules of formation that came into existence at the ...
... Blommaert's theory on discursive layering and of the notion of the archive as developed by Foucault. My basic aim became the deconstruction of the HRV archive to reveal the discursive rules of formation that came into existence at the ...
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... (Blommaert 8c Slembrouck 2000: 29) — the interpreters were not supposed to interpret or evaluate the victims' discourse, it goes without saying that neutrality or objectivity were out of the question. It lies beyond the scope of this ...
... (Blommaert 8c Slembrouck 2000: 29) — the interpreters were not supposed to interpret or evaluate the victims' discourse, it goes without saying that neutrality or objectivity were out of the question. It lies beyond the scope of this ...
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... (Blommaert 2005: 2). In this book the term discourse is understood in a Foucaultian sense, for instance as explained in his 'L'Arche'ologie du Savoir' from 1969. The most general and the vaguest way in which Foucault has used discourse ...
... (Blommaert 2005: 2). In this book the term discourse is understood in a Foucaultian sense, for instance as explained in his 'L'Arche'ologie du Savoir' from 1969. The most general and the vaguest way in which Foucault has used discourse ...
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