Date: 24-Nov-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: What We Remember: Achugar E-mail this message to a friend
Title: What We Remember
Subtitle: The Construction of Memory in Military Discourse
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 29
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Mariana Achugar
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289957 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289957 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206176 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206176 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
This interdisciplinary monograph explores the discursive manifestations of the conflict over how to remember and interpret the actions of the military during the last dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985). Through the exploration of the discursive ways in which this powerful group represents past events and participants, we can trace the ideological struggle over how to reconstruct a traumatic past. By looking at memory as a social and discursive practice, the analysis identifies particular semiotic practices and linguistic patterns deployed in the construction of memory. The discursive description of what is remembered, how it is remembered, and who remembers serves to explain how the institution's construction of the past is transformed and maintained to respond to outside criticism and create an institutional identity as a lawful state apparatus. This book should interest discourse analysts, historians, sociologists and researchers in the field of transitional justice.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
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