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Discourse and Human Rights Violations.
Title:
Discourse and Human Rights Violations.
Author:
Anthonissen, Christine.
ISBN:
9789027292735
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1 online resource (154 pages)
Contents:
Discourse and Human Rights Violations -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- The language of remembering and forgetting -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- The debate on truth and reconciliation -- Introduction -- An introduction to the TRC Literature -- Pre-TRC literature -- TRC literature: Chronological accounts -- TRC literature: Religious perspectives -- TRC literature: Theoretical perspectives -- TRC literature: Human rights/legal perspectives -- TRC literature: Social perspectives -- TRC literature: Political perspectives -- TRC literature: Anthropological perspectives -- TRC literature: Official publications -- Overlaps and lacunae -- Conclusion -- References -- Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hidden transcripts -- 3. Making sense in the TRC -- 4. Framing and contextualizing stories: The commissioners' role -- 5. A deeply hidden transcript -- 6. Coherence and structure -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies -- Introduction -- 2. The Trojan Horse Incident -- 3. Verbal mediation of the Trojan Horse Incident 12 years later -- 4. Discourse Sociolinguistics -- 5. Analysis of Trojan Horse discourses -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Addendum A: Illustrative data -- South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid -- Notes -- References -- Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices -- I. Different Subject Positions -- II. Choosing Positions -- III. Memories that heal and those that inflict pain -- Notes -- References -- History in the making/The making of history -- Introduction -- Theoretical considerations -- Research questions -- Context and Discourse Model.

Methods of analysis, justification strategies and some illustrative examples -- Three generations: A case study -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The series Benjamins Current Topics.
Abstract:
This paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of the German Wehrmacht, 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 Wehrmacht as institution, although the evidence provided by historians and the exhibitions is overwhelming. The topoi used (such as 'doing one's duty'; 'all wars are the same'; and so forth) are to be found in similar debates in other countries as well. Hence, this case study illustrates patterns of argumentation which occur much more generally than only in the specific national contexts studied in detail here.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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