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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... Group Language Facilitation Programme Umkhonto we Sizwe National Executive Committee Non-governmental organisation National Party Pan-Africanist Congress Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee South African Broadcasting Corporation ...
... Group Language Facilitation Programme Umkhonto we Sizwe National Executive Committee Non-governmental organisation National Party Pan-Africanist Congress Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee South African Broadcasting Corporation ...
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... groups. Apartheid had been so dehumanising to millions of people, so many South Africans had had their lives destroyed as a result of state security violence or because of activities carried out by the liberation forces, that the entire ...
... groups. Apartheid had been so dehumanising to millions of people, so many South Africans had had their lives destroyed as a result of state security violence or because of activities carried out by the liberation forces, that the entire ...
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... groups of individuals, the ways in which this interaction is influenced by the socio-political and historical situation and the power these constructed discursive meanings might exert on South African society. Central to this book is ...
... groups of individuals, the ways in which this interaction is influenced by the socio-political and historical situation and the power these constructed discursive meanings might exert on South African society. Central to this book is ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... group, it is important to note that the South African languages were not as well represented. In addition to the commissioners, the TRC Act also allowed for the appointment of additional committee members to serve on the Human Rights ...
... group, it is important to note that the South African languages were not as well represented. In addition to the commissioners, the TRC Act also allowed for the appointment of additional committee members to serve on the Human Rights ...
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