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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... Critical Discourse Analysis and for questions of power, identity and ideology it embraces. I am grateful to all of my colleagues at the Department of African Languages and Cultures. They were responsible for a peaceful and at the same ...
... Critical Discourse Analysis and for questions of power, identity and ideology it embraces. I am grateful to all of my colleagues at the Department of African Languages and Cultures. They were responsible for a peaceful and at the same ...
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... Critical Discourse Analysis Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Discourse Analysis Gross Human Rights Violations Human Rights Violations Human Rights Violations Committee International Centre for Transitional Iustice ...
... Critical Discourse Analysis Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Discourse Analysis Gross Human Rights Violations Human Rights Violations Human Rights Violations Committee International Centre for Transitional Iustice ...
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... discourse and to find out what the repercussions of this language might be on South African society. Such a linguistic approach is absolutely innovative in the field of TRC studies, even more so because I decided to use Critical Discourse ...
... discourse and to find out what the repercussions of this language might be on South African society. Such a linguistic approach is absolutely innovative in the field of TRC studies, even more so because I decided to use Critical Discourse ...
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... discourse. Importantly, as will become clear towards the end of this text, the exertion of power will predominantly ... Critical Discourse Analysis. Some of the aims of CDA are to explore power relations among discourse participants and ...
... discourse. Importantly, as will become clear towards the end of this text, the exertion of power will predominantly ... Critical Discourse Analysis. Some of the aims of CDA are to explore power relations among discourse participants and ...
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... analysis of HRV discourse, on the basis of Critical Discourse Analysis. However, I should stress that the data used are much too inaccurate and incomplete to conduct a detailed discourse analysis or conversation analysis. Moreover, I ...
... analysis of HRV discourse, on the basis of Critical Discourse Analysis. However, I should stress that the data used are much too inaccurate and incomplete to conduct a detailed discourse analysis or conversation analysis. Moreover, I ...
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