Scrutiny of the legal elements of international criminal tribunals such as the ICTY are frequent and important, but this article suggests that new avenues need to be taken in order to truly understand what is taking place within the courtroom sociologically. Embedded within courtroom interactions are symbolic exchanges that can stand as both reflections of and implications for the success or failure of transitional justice as a tool to promote community understanding post-conflict. Using a mixture of social psychology and cognitive linguistics, this article examines the significance of in-court references to memory, theorising that the concepts of remembering and forgetting as discussed in transcripts reveal greater struggles between the witnesses and the court over narrative control. This ultimately raises questions about the nature of the relationship between international legal bodies and the individual victim-witness, and demonstrates that there are failings occurring here that could make processes of reconciliation and community healing more difficult.

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前南斯拉夫国际刑事法庭（ICTY）的记忆

对国际刑事法庭（例如前南问题国际法庭）的法律要素的审查是经常且重要的，但本文建议，需要采取新的途径，以便从社会学角度真正了解法庭内正在发生的事情。在法庭互动中嵌入的是象征性的交流，既可以作为对过渡司法成败的反思，也可以作为对过渡司法成败的一种暗示，以此来促进社区对冲突后的理解。本文结合社会心理学和认知语言学的研究，探讨了法庭上对记忆的提及的重要性，从理论上讲，笔录中讨论的记忆和遗忘概念揭示了证人与法院在叙事控制上的更大斗争。