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| Other authors / contributors: | Anthonissen, Christine.
Blommaert, Jan.
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| ISBN: | 9789027292735
9027292736
9027222355
9789027222350
9789027222350
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
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| 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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| Other form: | Print version: Discourse and human rights violations. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007
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