Discourse and human rights violations
By: edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert.
Contributors: Anthonissen, Christine.; Blommaert, Jan.
Series: Benjamins Current topics -- v. 5
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027222350
Subjects: South Africa. -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission.; Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africa.; Apartheid -- South Africa.; Apartheid in literature.; Human rights -- South Africa.; Discourse analysis -- South Africa.; War crimes -- Austria -- Public opinion.; Discourse analysis -- Austria.
Table of contents: title: The debate on truth and reconciliation : a survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Annelies Verdoolaege; title: Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings : on the hearability of hidden transcripts / Jan Blommaert, Mary Bock, and Kay Mccormick; title: Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies / Christine Anthonissen; title: South African novelists and the grand narrative of apartheid / Annie Gagiano; title: Linguistic bearings and testimonial practices / Fiona Ross; title: History in the making/the making of history : the "German Wehrmacht" in collective and individual memories in Austria / Ruth Wodak.