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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... Audience as actor 101 5.4 Identity layering 109 5.4.1 Introduction 109 5.4.2 Feature Eight: Struggling with an Afrikaner/white identity 110 5.4.3 Feature Nine: Victim-perpetrator identity 117 5.4.4 Feature Ten: Pro-con ANC identity 123 ...
... Audience as actor 101 5.4 Identity layering 109 5.4.1 Introduction 109 5.4.2 Feature Eight: Struggling with an Afrikaner/white identity 110 5.4.3 Feature Nine: Victim-perpetrator identity 117 5.4.4 Feature Ten: Pro-con ANC identity 123 ...
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... audience or between testifiers and some of the contextual features (media, discursive setting, etc.). As with any institutional situation, power relations took shape through interaction between discourse participants. To analyse and ...
... audience or between testifiers and some of the contextual features (media, discursive setting, etc.). As with any institutional situation, power relations took shape through interaction between discourse participants. To analyse and ...
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... audience could witness some amazing moments of reconciliation (see Tutu 1999b: 120). These individual instances of reconciliation were often the result of the actual encounters between victims and perpetrators. A numb er of victims ...
... audience could witness some amazing moments of reconciliation (see Tutu 1999b: 120). These individual instances of reconciliation were often the result of the actual encounters between victims and perpetrators. A numb er of victims ...
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... audience got to know the TRC through the English language-medium. This language policy of the TRC is understandable considering the international appearance ofthe Commission. The TRC wanted to stand as an example of restorative justice ...
... audience got to know the TRC through the English language-medium. This language policy of the TRC is understandable considering the international appearance ofthe Commission. The TRC wanted to stand as an example of restorative justice ...
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... audience in a hymn Usually, however, a silence was preserved in the hall until the testifier's equilibrium was restored When each testifier finished the chairperson solicited additional questions (usually of clarification) Testifiers ...
... audience in a hymn Usually, however, a silence was preserved in the hall until the testifier's equilibrium was restored When each testifier finished the chairperson solicited additional questions (usually of clarification) Testifiers ...
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