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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... interpretations of reconciliation 151 6.2 A multilayered reconciliation discourse in South African reality 155 6.2.1 Introduction 155 6.2.2 Reconciliation discourse pre-TRC 156 6.2.3 Reconciliation discourse after 1995 158 6.2.4 ...
... interpretations of reconciliation 151 6.2 A multilayered reconciliation discourse in South African reality 155 6.2.1 Introduction 155 6.2.2 Reconciliation discourse pre-TRC 156 6.2.3 Reconciliation discourse after 1995 158 6.2.4 ...
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... interpretation — such an interpretation can be useful for the sake of clarity, also in this research. In the course of this text, though, we will understand that at the TRC the actual — and highly diverse — interpretation of the term ...
... interpretation — such an interpretation can be useful for the sake of clarity, also in this research. In the course of this text, though, we will understand that at the TRC the actual — and highly diverse — interpretation of the term ...
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... interpreting services were set up in order to allow people to testify in the language they preferred and psycho-social support was provided for the testifying victims and their families — for instance, during their testimonies victims ...
... interpreting services were set up in order to allow people to testify in the language they preferred and psycho-social support was provided for the testifying victims and their families — for instance, during their testimonies victims ...
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... interpreting service. The Language Facilitation Programme (LFP) of the University of the Free State was among the agencies that were approached to render this service. It was the LFP that assisted the TRC in the training of the ...
... interpreting service. The Language Facilitation Programme (LFP) of the University of the Free State was among the agencies that were approached to render this service. It was the LFP that assisted the TRC in the training of the ...
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... interpret or evaluate the victims' discourse, it goes without saying that neutrality or objectivity were out of the ... interpretation, where the emotional persona could not be dismissed. The interpreters could try to maintain their ...
... interpret or evaluate the victims' discourse, it goes without saying that neutrality or objectivity were out of the ... interpretation, where the emotional persona could not be dismissed. The interpreters could try to maintain their ...
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