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621006879 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 5 Eb 15 9789027292735 06 10.1075/bct.5 13 2007005496 DG 002 02 01 BCT 02 1874-0081 Benjamins Current Topics 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Discourse and Human Rights Violations</TitleText> 01 bct.5 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.5 1 B01 Christine Anthonissen Anthonissen, Christine Christine Anthonissen University of Stellenbosch 2 B01 Jan Blommaert Blommaert, Jan Jan Blommaert LSE 01 eng 154 x 142 LAN015000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 First published as a Special Issue of the <i>Journal of Language and Politics</i> 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 is articulated and sometimes overcome, for how confrontational discourses are publicly managed, for how, after gross human rights violations, reconciliation can be mediated. Language is viewed as an instrument of confronting a traumatic past, of negotiating conflict, and of initiating processes of healing for individuals as well as in communities. 05 Building on the work of authors like Faircloug, Van Dijk, and Wodak, the present authors have righlty analysed power structures and ideologies. [...] An interesting case study for critical discourse analysis. Jacob Srampickal, S. J., Gregorian University, Rome, in Communication Research Trends, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2008) 05 I found this book very interesting, highly readable and thought provoking. [...] Reconciliation is an international phenomenon of concern and <i>Discourse and Human Rights Violations</i> offers a valuable and accessible account of sound theoretically supported research that has elicited rich and fascinating historical narratives. The volume is an interesting presentation of the complicated domain of human rights discourse that indicates the rich potential for multidisciplinary research between linguistics and a range of related disciplines. [...] This volume encourages its readers to become more active in that community to reveal these gross injustices and assist in the healing process. Angela Ardington, University of Sydney, in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Volume 33, Number 1, 2010 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.5.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027222350.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027222350.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.5.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.5.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.5.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.5.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.5.01abo vii ix 3 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">About the Authors</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.5.02art Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Articles</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.5.03ant 1 12 12 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The language of remembering and forgetting</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">language of remembering and forgetting</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Christine Anthonissen Anthonissen, Christine Christine Anthonissen 10 01 JB code bct.5.04ver 13 32 20 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The debate on truth and reconciliation</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">debate on truth and reconciliation</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">A survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission</Subtitle> 1 A01 Annelies Verdoolaege Verdoolaege, Annelies Annelies Verdoolaege Ghent University 01 This article gives an overview of a large part of contemporary TRC literature. Hundreds of publications have appeared on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With a view to proper academic reflection it would be useful to classify this literature. Various classificatory criteria could be used. In this text a topical perspective is taken, so the TRC literature is subdivided on the basis of the thematic focus of the author. Perspectives on the SA Truth Commission have many different thematic interests, such as legal, religious, political, psychological, anthropological and linguistic. This paper tries to bring some cohesion and meaningful organization to this multitude of books, articles and dissertations. Within each thematic category representative examples are pointed out. Finally, reference is made to some lacunae and overlaps which are evident from looking at the body of TRC literature. As a result, this article can be seen as an investigation into the characterizing features of the debate on the TRC. 10 01 JB code bct.5.05blo 33 63 31 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On the hearability of hidden transcripts</Subtitle> 1 A01 Jan Blommaert Blommaert, Jan Jan Blommaert Institute of Education, University of London and Ghent University 2 A01 Mary Bock Bock, Mary Mary Bock University of Cape Town 3 A01 Kay McCormick McCormick, Kay Kay McCormick University of Cape Town 01 South Africa&#8217;s Truth and Reconciliation Commission victim hearings were a highly unusual discourse event in which previously silenced and powerless people were offered a prestigious public forum and speech format to tell about their experiences of human rights violations. However, despite the equal access offered to victims for the telling of their stories, pre-existing inequalities persisted and were reflected in the relative &#8216;hearability&#8217; of these stories. We use the concept of &#8216;pretextuality&#8217; to account for the relative hearability. The concept refers to the varying degrees of competence in language varieties, literacy and narrative skills that people bring with them to a communicative interaction, and which influence the impact of their narratives. Through detailed analysis of selected testimonies, we demonstrate ways in which the inequalities suggested above emerged in the hearings. 10 01 JB code bct.5.06ant 65 88 24 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies</TitleText> 1 A01 Christine Anthonissen Anthonissen, Christine Christine Anthonissen University of Stellenbosch 01 This paper considers a number of salient, characterising features of the verbal mediation process that took place in the TRC hearings on gross human rights violations. This is done with reference to the methodology developed in Discourse Sociolinguistics. It considers how various participants represent a particular event, each taking the perspective from which they experienced it. It notes the differences in verbal choice, and in textual and information structure of (i.a.) a journalist who witnessed this particular instance of public police excess, of a woman involved because her home was at the scene of the confrontation between police and youngsters, of one of the commanding police officers who had been subpoenaed and thus was not a voluntary witness at the hearing, of a doctor who treated patients after the event, of a school teacher who could articulate the particular kind of protest youngsters engaged in at the time, and so on. It also highlights a particular practice of reformulating which appears to be typical of discourses that mediate past atrocities with a view to founding new and improved democratic practices. 10 01 JB code bct.5.07gag 89 100 12 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid</TitleText> 1 A01 Annie Gagiano Gagiano, Annie Annie Gagiano Stellenbosch University 01 The apartheid policies and practices by means of which South Africa was formerly governed also had an ideological or mythological dimension, which functioned as its justificatory narrative. The process of replacing that narrative which needs to be undertaken in South Africa can make use, among other processes, of the re-presentations of this society by our novelists. This paper sketches something of the complex interplay between fiction, social reality, and moral-political understanding at the hand of six novels. It focuses on depictions of acts and experiences of violation as the signature of the ruthless force and after-effects of the apartheid system. It draws attention to the various, but socially meaningful workings of novelistic discourse in these texts, functioning as they do within a situation requiring profound psychic and social readjustment. 10 01 JB code bct.5.08ros 101 113 13 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices</TitleText> 1 A01 Fiona Ross Ross, Fiona Fiona Ross University of Cape Town 01 The paper considers women&#8217;s testimonies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, tracing the complexities of speaking about suffering. A growing literature suggests that violence and horror corrupt language and interrupt its flow. Testimonial practices focused on violence&#8217;s recall then occupy unstable grounds. Arguing that testimony is mediated by the subject positions from which women speak and that these are shaped by cultural convention, the paper traces the effects of &#8216;modes of discomfort&#8217;, drawing attention to the faultlines between words and experience when violence is recalled. 10 01 JB code bct.5.09wod 115 142 28 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">History in the making/The making of history</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The &#8216;German <i>Wehrmacht</i>&#8217; in collective and individual memories in Austria</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ruth Wodak Wodak, Ruth Ruth Wodak University of Lancaster 01 This paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of the German <i>Wehrmacht</i>, shown in Germany and Austria 1995 and 2002, as examples. Numerous justification and legitimization strategies are involved in public and private discourses. The study claims that official genres, such as school books or TV documentaries, still launch narratives which exculpate the German <i>Wehrmacht</i> as institution, although the evidence provided by historians and the exhibitions is overwhelming. The <i>topoi</i> used (such as &#8216;doing one&#8217;s duty&#8217;; &#8216;all wars are the same&#8217;; and so forth) are to be found in similar debates in other countries as well. 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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 is articulated and sometimes overcome, for how confrontational discourses are publicly managed, for how, after gross human rights violations, reconciliation can be mediated. Language is viewed as an instrument of confronting a traumatic past, of negotiating conflict, and of initiating processes of healing for individuals as well as in communities. 05 Building on the work of authors like Faircloug, Van Dijk, and Wodak, the present authors have righlty analysed power structures and ideologies. [...] An interesting case study for critical discourse analysis. Jacob Srampickal, S. J., Gregorian University, Rome, in Communication Research Trends, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2008) 05 I found this book very interesting, highly readable and thought provoking. [...] Reconciliation is an international phenomenon of concern and <i>Discourse and Human Rights Violations</i> offers a valuable and accessible account of sound theoretically supported research that has elicited rich and fascinating historical narratives. The volume is an interesting presentation of the complicated domain of human rights discourse that indicates the rich potential for multidisciplinary research between linguistics and a range of related disciplines. [...] This volume encourages its readers to become more active in that community to reveal these gross injustices and assist in the healing process. Angela Ardington, University of Sydney, in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Volume 33, Number 1, 2010 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.5.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027222350.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027222350.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.5.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.5.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.5.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.5.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.5.01abo vii ix 3 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">About the Authors</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.5.02art Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Articles</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.5.03ant 1 12 12 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The language of remembering and forgetting</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">language of remembering and forgetting</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Christine Anthonissen Anthonissen, Christine Christine Anthonissen 10 01 JB code bct.5.04ver 13 32 20 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The debate on truth and reconciliation</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">debate on truth and reconciliation</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">A survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission</Subtitle> 1 A01 Annelies Verdoolaege Verdoolaege, Annelies Annelies Verdoolaege Ghent University 01 This article gives an overview of a large part of contemporary TRC literature. Hundreds of publications have appeared on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With a view to proper academic reflection it would be useful to classify this literature. Various classificatory criteria could be used. In this text a topical perspective is taken, so the TRC literature is subdivided on the basis of the thematic focus of the author. Perspectives on the SA Truth Commission have many different thematic interests, such as legal, religious, political, psychological, anthropological and linguistic. This paper tries to bring some cohesion and meaningful organization to this multitude of books, articles and dissertations. Within each thematic category representative examples are pointed out. Finally, reference is made to some lacunae and overlaps which are evident from looking at the body of TRC literature. As a result, this article can be seen as an investigation into the characterizing features of the debate on the TRC. 10 01 JB code bct.5.05blo 33 63 31 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On the hearability of hidden transcripts</Subtitle> 1 A01 Jan Blommaert Blommaert, Jan Jan Blommaert Institute of Education, University of London and Ghent University 2 A01 Mary Bock Bock, Mary Mary Bock University of Cape Town 3 A01 Kay McCormick McCormick, Kay Kay McCormick University of Cape Town 01 South Africa&#8217;s Truth and Reconciliation Commission victim hearings were a highly unusual discourse event in which previously silenced and powerless people were offered a prestigious public forum and speech format to tell about their experiences of human rights violations. However, despite the equal access offered to victims for the telling of their stories, pre-existing inequalities persisted and were reflected in the relative &#8216;hearability&#8217; of these stories. We use the concept of &#8216;pretextuality&#8217; to account for the relative hearability. The concept refers to the varying degrees of competence in language varieties, literacy and narrative skills that people bring with them to a communicative interaction, and which influence the impact of their narratives. Through detailed analysis of selected testimonies, we demonstrate ways in which the inequalities suggested above emerged in the hearings. 10 01 JB code bct.5.06ant 65 88 24 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies</TitleText> 1 A01 Christine Anthonissen Anthonissen, Christine Christine Anthonissen University of Stellenbosch 01 This paper considers a number of salient, characterising features of the verbal mediation process that took place in the TRC hearings on gross human rights violations. This is done with reference to the methodology developed in Discourse Sociolinguistics. It considers how various participants represent a particular event, each taking the perspective from which they experienced it. It notes the differences in verbal choice, and in textual and information structure of (i.a.) a journalist who witnessed this particular instance of public police excess, of a woman involved because her home was at the scene of the confrontation between police and youngsters, of one of the commanding police officers who had been subpoenaed and thus was not a voluntary witness at the hearing, of a doctor who treated patients after the event, of a school teacher who could articulate the particular kind of protest youngsters engaged in at the time, and so on. It also highlights a particular practice of reformulating which appears to be typical of discourses that mediate past atrocities with a view to founding new and improved democratic practices. 10 01 JB code bct.5.07gag 89 100 12 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid</TitleText> 1 A01 Annie Gagiano Gagiano, Annie Annie Gagiano Stellenbosch University 01 The apartheid policies and practices by means of which South Africa was formerly governed also had an ideological or mythological dimension, which functioned as its justificatory narrative. The process of replacing that narrative which needs to be undertaken in South Africa can make use, among other processes, of the re-presentations of this society by our novelists. This paper sketches something of the complex interplay between fiction, social reality, and moral-political understanding at the hand of six novels. It focuses on depictions of acts and experiences of violation as the signature of the ruthless force and after-effects of the apartheid system. It draws attention to the various, but socially meaningful workings of novelistic discourse in these texts, functioning as they do within a situation requiring profound psychic and social readjustment. 10 01 JB code bct.5.08ros 101 113 13 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices</TitleText> 1 A01 Fiona Ross Ross, Fiona Fiona Ross University of Cape Town 01 The paper considers women&#8217;s testimonies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, tracing the complexities of speaking about suffering. A growing literature suggests that violence and horror corrupt language and interrupt its flow. Testimonial practices focused on violence&#8217;s recall then occupy unstable grounds. Arguing that testimony is mediated by the subject positions from which women speak and that these are shaped by cultural convention, the paper traces the effects of &#8216;modes of discomfort&#8217;, drawing attention to the faultlines between words and experience when violence is recalled. 10 01 JB code bct.5.09wod 115 142 28 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">History in the making/The making of history</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The &#8216;German <i>Wehrmacht</i>&#8217; in collective and individual memories in Austria</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ruth Wodak Wodak, Ruth Ruth Wodak University of Lancaster 01 This paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of the German <i>Wehrmacht</i>, shown in Germany and Austria 1995 and 2002, as examples. Numerous justification and legitimization strategies are involved in public and private discourses. The study claims that official genres, such as school books or TV documentaries, still launch narratives which exculpate the German <i>Wehrmacht</i> as institution, although the evidence provided by historians and the exhibitions is overwhelming. The <i>topoi</i> used (such as &#8216;doing one&#8217;s duty&#8217;; &#8216;all wars are the same&#8217;; and so forth) are to be found in similar debates in other countries as well. 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