عنوان

Het Suggereren van Verzoening Tijdens de Hoorzittingen van de Waarheids- en Verzoeningscommissie

شماره

LA107597

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Het Suggereren van Verzoening Tijdens de Hoorzittingen van de Waarheids- en Verzoeningscommissie

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Annelies Verdoolaege

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Suggesting reconciliation at the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) took place under unique circumstances and in a very particular historical context. This article will explore how such a specific kind of reality gave rise to a specific kind of discourse, a so-called 'reconciliation discourse'. On the one hand, this discourse offered the apartheid victims a lot of opportunities regarding linguistic expression. On the other hand, though, this discourse was also regimented and limited to a certain extent. By means of fragments from the TRC victim testimonies, this article will deal with one aspect of this linguistic manipulation, namely the introduction of the concept of reconciliation. In the first part of the article, I will explain which linguistic methods were used during the TRC hearings in order to emphasize the notion of reconciliation in the narratives of the testifying victims. In doing so, a lot of attention will be paid to the concrete interaction between the testifiers and the TRC commissioners. In a second part, I will try to investigate why the construction of this specific reconciliation discourse was necessary in the South African context. We will see that, amongst others, also political considerations played a role in the control exercised over the discourse of the TRC victims. In this way, we will understand that the reconciliation discourse of the Commission was a reflection of a very ambiguous social attitude: this discourse had to reveal as much as possible about the apartheid past - and this in a manner as spontaneous, as transparent and as open as possible -, but it also had to be adapted to certain socio-political needs. This will tell us that also a quasi-judicial institution such as the TRC involves an inevitable interplay between language on the one hand and ideology and society on the other.

تاريخ نشر

2005

توصيف ظاهري

73-94

عنوان

Afrika Focus

شماره جلد

18/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2031-356X

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

apartheid

اصطلاح موضوعی

critical discourse analysis

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

reconciliation

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social Sciences

اصطلاح موضوعی

South Africa

اصطلاح موضوعی

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

اصطلاح موضوعی

victim testimonies

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Annelies Verdoolaege

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/2031356X-0180102006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y