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Publication details [#51798]

Verdoolaege, Annelies. 2009. Dealing with a traumatic past: the victim hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and their reconciliation discourse. Critical Discourse Studies 6 (4) : 297–309.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | discourse analysis | memory | racism | truth condition

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses how the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recording testimonies from apartheid victims and perpetrators, has been exerting a long-lasting impact on South African society, especially on a discursive level.