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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... Apartheid-talk 90 5.3.3 Feature Six: Continuity between the past and the present 97 5.3.4 Feature Seven: Audience as actor 101 5.4 Identity layering 109 5.4.1 Introduction 109 5.4.2 Feature Eight: Struggling with an Afrikaner/white ...
... Apartheid-talk 90 5.3.3 Feature Six: Continuity between the past and the present 97 5.3.4 Feature Seven: Audience as actor 101 5.4 Identity layering 109 5.4.1 Introduction 109 5.4.2 Feature Eight: Struggling with an Afrikaner/white ...
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... apartheid regime unofficially came to an end with the release of Nelson ... past might well lead to massive acts of revenge, or even civil war ... apartheid victims and perpetrators and by formulating visions for the future, the ...
... apartheid regime unofficially came to an end with the release of Nelson ... past might well lead to massive acts of revenge, or even civil war ... apartheid victims and perpetrators and by formulating visions for the future, the ...
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... apartheid past. There are many ways in which TRC discourse can be analysed: attention can be paid to the role of the interpreters, the original language of the testifiers can be scrutinised, or one can try to understand the interaction ...
... apartheid past. There are many ways in which TRC discourse can be analysed: attention can be paid to the role of the interpreters, the original language of the testifiers can be scrutinised, or one can try to understand the interaction ...
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... African society posed a number of problems. To begin with, the main part of the ... apartheid socio-political life would have a minor impact on this research ... past and the future are the central focus of this work. All this develops in ...
... African society posed a number of problems. To begin with, the main part of the ... apartheid socio-political life would have a minor impact on this research ... past and the future are the central focus of this work. All this develops in ...
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... apartheid victims were given a voice and were offered a platform to talk about their experiences in the past. These testimonies revealed the extent to which apartheid has had a pernicious influence on the daily lives of many South ...
... apartheid victims were given a voice and were offered a platform to talk about their experiences in the past. These testimonies revealed the extent to which apartheid has had a pernicious influence on the daily lives of many South ...
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