LEADER 03866nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910972511703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612154850 010 $a9781282154858 010 $a1282154850 010 $a9789027292735 010 $a9027292736 024 7 $a10.1075/bct.5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000534995 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139665 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144874 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139665 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10010459 035 $a(PQKB)10961516 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622467 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL622467 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10172333 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215485 035 $a(OCoLC)320323699 035 $a(DE-B1597)721217 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789027292735 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000534995 100 $a20070212d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDiscourse and human rights violations /$fedited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub.$dc2007 215 $aix, 142 p 225 1 $aBenjamins Current topics ;$vv. 5 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9789027222350 311 08$a9027222355 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThis paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of the German Wehrmacht, shown in Germany and Austria 1995 and 2002, as examples. Numerous justification and legitimization strategies are involved in public and private discourses. The study claims that official genres, such as school books or TV documentaries, still launch narratives which exculpate the German Wehrmacht as institution, although the evidence provided by historians and the exhibitions is overwhelming. The topoi used (such as 'doing one's duty'; 'all wars are the same'; and so forth) are to be found in similar debates in other countries as well. Hence, this case study illustrates patterns of argumentation which occur much more generally than only in the specific national contexts studied in detail here. 410 0$aBenjamins current topics ;$vv. 5. 606 $aReconciliation$xPolitical aspects$zSouth Africa 606 $aApartheid$zSouth Africa 606 $aApartheid in literature 606 $aHuman rights$zSouth Africa 606 $aDiscourse analysis$zSouth Africa 606 $aWar crimes$zAustria$xPublic opinion 606 $aDiscourse analysis$zAustria 615 0$aReconciliation$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aApartheid 615 0$aApartheid in literature. 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aDiscourse analysis 615 0$aWar crimes$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aDiscourse analysis 676 $a968.06 701 $aAnthonissen$b Christine$01802088 701 $aBlommaert$b Jan$0221082 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972511703321 996 $aDiscourse and human rights violations$94347620 997 $aUNINA