'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies

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dc.contributor.authorBock, Zannie
dc.date.accessioned20/10/2011 16:49
dc.date.available20/10/2011 16:49
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores how two testifiers at the Human Rights Violation hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 used selected markers of evaluation (shifts in tense, the inclusion of direct speech and code-switching) to express evaluative meanings and position themselves, the police and their audiences in relation to their narratives. Both testifiers are mothers of young activists who were pursued, detained and tortured by police in the 1980s. The paper argues that it is through the subtle though significant linguistic choices the women make that their perspective is construed and their 'narrative truth' realized.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBock, Zannie. (2008). 'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies. Special Issue on the TRC of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 3 (3): 189-203.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1080/17447140802381201
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/267
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterTRUE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author copy of an article that was published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses � 2008 Copyright Taylor & Francis
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17447140802381201
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectAppraisalen_US
dc.subjectCode-switchingen_US
dc.subjectTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)en_US
dc.subjectTestimoniesen_US
dc.subjectNarrativesen_US
dc.subjectNarrative truthen_US
dc.subjectEvaluationen_US
dc.subjectSimultaneous interpretationen_US
dc.subjectSystemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)en_US
dc.title'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimoniesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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