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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... officials did come forward for fear of prosecution, their superiors got away. People like the former Presidents ... official institution like the TRC (Hamber & Wilson 1999; Stanley 2001). It is therefore questionable that individual ...
... officials did come forward for fear of prosecution, their superiors got away. People like the former Presidents ... official institution like the TRC (Hamber & Wilson 1999; Stanley 2001). It is therefore questionable that individual ...
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... officials by the TRC was also available to the interpreters, more attention could have been paid to these psychological features in the course of the training period (du Plessis & Wiegand 1997: 18). In addition, it was often dlfl'lClllt ...
... officials by the TRC was also available to the interpreters, more attention could have been paid to these psychological features in the course of the training period (du Plessis & Wiegand 1997: 18). In addition, it was often dlfl'lClllt ...
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... Official TRC Website, for instance, solely exists in English. All of the public testimonies given at the TRC are available on this website, but it is only the English discourse — of the testifier, but more often of the interpreter ...
... Official TRC Website, for instance, solely exists in English. All of the public testimonies given at the TRC are available on this website, but it is only the English discourse — of the testifier, but more often of the interpreter ...
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... official publications on the coming into existence of the Commission as well — publications that resulted in the TRC Act as the Commission's formal starting point. Also, in preparation of the TRC, the Centre for the Study of Violence ...
... official publications on the coming into existence of the Commission as well — publications that resulted in the TRC Act as the Commission's formal starting point. Also, in preparation of the TRC, the Centre for the Study of Violence ...
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... Official TRC Website, the material TRC archive also consists of a wealth of primary data that was collected during the life span of the Commission. These records include the written statements taken from the 21,290 victims, the ...
... Official TRC Website, the material TRC archive also consists of a wealth of primary data that was collected during the life span of the Commission. These records include the written statements taken from the 21,290 victims, the ...
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