Referentiality: Referential Discourse-Centeredness

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Objective: The author uses a discourse-centered approach to help others, such as human rights analysts in understanding how survivors, specifically in Guatemala tell their stories or testimonies in truth commissions and bring awareness to their stories instead of silencing them. Concepts: Referentiality: Referential function is also referred to as denotational and semantico-referential. Referential function means what is the survivor, in this case referring to when giving their testimony. The example given within the text is that when testimonies are given, advocates focus more on the events, experiences, and acts in which the survivors are referring to because through these references is how people are able to find the truth and bring awareness

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