ABSTRACT
"A historiographical approach to critical discourse analysis seeks to reveal the hidden assumptions in received and naturalized historical accounts, with a particular emphasis on the language used in their elaboration". Historiographical critical discourse analysis has explored the representations of the past as content and practice. Taking a critical perspective on historical discourse requires us to connect history to its place of production. These places of production produce silencing effects. Historiographical research is produced from certain socioeconomic, political and cultural locations. Memory and history are also different in terms of knowledge status and social legitimacy. In different situations, arguments that are based on having been there or documentary proof produce different legitimacy. The recognition of human agency in the making of history makes visible the difficulty of constructing a global and totalizing history. This also means that our knowledge of the past is subject to historical time, thus it is always provisional and open to revision.
