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1 online resource (ix, 142 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Benjamins Current topics ; v. 5
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The debate on truth and reconciliation : a survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings : on the hearability of hidden transcripts / Jan Blommaert, Mary Bock, and Kay McCormick -- Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies / Christine Anthonissen -- South African novelists and the grand narrative of apartheid / Annie Gagiano -- Linguistic bearings and testimonial practices / Fiona Ross -- History in the making/the making of history : the "German Wehrmacht" in collective and individual memories in Austria / Ruth Wodak. |
| Summary |
First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006), this collection of papers focuses, from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, on aspects of language and communication in official processes of dealing with traumatic pasts. It is a text that belongs to the genre of talking about pain, about state violence, about uncovering suppressed truths. Linguists and a number of other social scientists investigate discourses, mostly ones generated during hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), scrutinizing them for how trauma. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
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South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africa.
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects. |
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South Africa. |
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Apartheid -- South Africa.
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Apartheid. |
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Apartheid in literature.
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Apartheid in literature. |
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Human rights -- South Africa.
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Human rights. |
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Discourse analysis -- South Africa.
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Discourse analysis. |
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War crimes -- Austria -- Public opinion.
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War crimes. |
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Austria. |
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Public opinion. |
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Discourse analysis -- Austria.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| Added Author |
Anthonissen, Christine.
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Blommaert, Jan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Discourse and human rights violations. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007 (DLC) 2007005496 |
| ISBN |
9789027292735 (electronic book) |
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9027292736 (electronic book) |
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9027222355 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027222350 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027222350 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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