Publications

Publication details [#46398]

Achugar, Mariana. 2007. Between remembering and forgetting: Uruguayan military discourse about human rights (1976—2004). Discourse & Society 18 (5) : 521–547.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discursive practice | language for special purposes | memory | morality | representational structure

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores Uruguayan military discourse regarding the last dictatorship (1973—85) in order to comprehend how human rights violations are accounted for and legitimated. It shows collective memory's historical, discursive and dynamic nature.