03866nam 2200781Ia 450 991097251170332120200520144314.09786612154850978128215485812821548509789027292735902729273610.1075/bct.5(CKB)1000000000534995(SSID)ssj0000139665(PQKBManifestationID)11144874(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139665(PQKBWorkID)10010459(PQKB)10961516(MiAaPQ)EBC622467(Au-PeEL)EBL622467(CaPaEBR)ebr10172333(CaONFJC)MIL215485(OCoLC)320323699(DE-B1597)721217(DE-B1597)9789027292735(EXLCZ)99100000000053499520070212d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDiscourse and human rights violations /edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert1st ed.Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub.c2007ix, 142 pBenjamins Current topics ;v. 5Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789027222350 9027222355 The debate on truth and reconciliation : a survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings : on the hearability of hidden transcripts / Jan Blommaert, Mary Bock, and Kay McCormick -- Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies / Christine Anthonissen -- South African novelists and the grand narrative of apartheid / Annie Gagiano -- Linguistic bearings and testimonial practices / Fiona Ross -- History in the making/the making of history : the "German Wehrmacht" in collective and individual memories in Austria / Ruth Wodak.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.Benjamins current topics ;v. 5.ReconciliationPolitical aspectsSouth AfricaApartheidSouth AfricaApartheid in literatureHuman rightsSouth AfricaDiscourse analysisSouth AfricaWar crimesAustriaPublic opinionDiscourse analysisAustriaReconciliationPolitical aspectsApartheidApartheid in literature.Human rightsDiscourse analysisWar crimesPublic opinion.Discourse analysis968.06Anthonissen Christine1802088Blommaert Jan221082MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972511703321Discourse and human rights violations4347620UNINA