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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... social psychology, social anthropology, sociology, economics, and gender studies. General Editors Ruth Wodak and Greg Myers University of Lancaster Editorial address: Ruth Wodak, Bowland College, Department of Linguistics and English ...
... social psychology, social anthropology, sociology, economics, and gender studies. General Editors Ruth Wodak and Greg Myers University of Lancaster Editorial address: Ruth Wodak, Bowland College, Department of Linguistics and English ...
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... Social aspects--South Africa. 4. Discourse analysis--Political aspects--South Africa. I. Title. DT1974.2.V47 2008 968.06--dc22 2007040633 ISBN 978 90 272 2718 8 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2008 — Iohn Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be ...
... Social aspects--South Africa. 4. Discourse analysis--Political aspects--South Africa. I. Title. DT1974.2.V47 2008 968.06--dc22 2007040633 ISBN 978 90 272 2718 8 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2008 — Iohn Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be ...
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... social and religious institutions helped to inform people about the TRC and they encouraged individuals to give statements to the TRC. These statement takers tried to reach as many people as possible both in the rural and the urban ...
... social and religious institutions helped to inform people about the TRC and they encouraged individuals to give statements to the TRC. These statement takers tried to reach as many people as possible both in the rural and the urban ...
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... social support was provided for the testifying victims and their families — for instance, during their testimonies victims were constantly assisted by 'briefers', staff members ofthe TRC who had been trained in order to psychologically ...
... social support was provided for the testifying victims and their families — for instance, during their testimonies victims were constantly assisted by 'briefers', staff members ofthe TRC who had been trained in order to psychologically ...
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... social experience in which millions of people played a role. In this way it became easier for them to deal with the past trauma and with the powerlessness and humiliations they had been confronted with for so many decades (Minow 1998 ...
... social experience in which millions of people played a role. In this way it became easier for them to deal with the past trauma and with the powerlessness and humiliations they had been confronted with for so many decades (Minow 1998 ...
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