Discourse and Human Rights Violations 1
Editorial page 2
Title page 3
LCC data 4
Table of contents 5
About the Authors 7
The language of remembering and forgetting 11
Introduction 11
Notes 19
References 20
The debate on truth and reconciliation 23
Introduction 23
An introduction to the TRC Literature 24
Pre-TRC literature 25
TRC literature: Chronological accounts 26
TRC literature: Religious perspectives 29
TRC literature: Theoretical perspectives 30
TRC literature: Human rights/legal perspectives 32
TRC literature: Social perspectives 34
TRC literature: Political perspectives 35
TRC literature: Anthropological perspectives 36
TRC literature: Official publications 37
Overlaps and lacunae 38
Conclusion 40
References 41
Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings 43
1. Introduction 43
2. Hidden transcripts 44
3. Making sense in the TRC 47
4. Framing and contextualizing stories: The commissioners\u2019 role 51
5. A deeply hidden transcript 54
6. Coherence and structure 66
7. Conclusions 70
Notes 72
References 72
Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies 75
Introduction 75
2. The Trojan Horse Incident 77
3. Verbal mediation of the Trojan Horse Incident 12 years later 78
4. Discourse Sociolinguistics 78
5. Analysis of Trojan Horse discourses 89
6. Conclusion 93
Notes 94
References 94
Addendum A: Illustrative data 96
South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid 99
Notes 109
References 109
Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices 111
I. Different Subject Positions 113
II. Choosing Positions 118
III. Memories that heal and those that inflict pain 119
Notes 122
References 122
History in the making/The making of history 125
Introduction 125
Theoretical considerations 129
Research questions 132
Context and Discourse Model 133
Methods of analysis, justification strategies and some illustrative examples 135
Three generations: A case study 140
Conclusions 147
Notes 149
References 150
The series Benjamins Current Topics 153