Discourse and human rights violations /
First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2007.
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| Series: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 5. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 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. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789027292735 9027292736 9027222355 9789027222350 1282154850 9781282154858 9786612154850 6612154853 |
