Greece in Crisis

Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives

Editors

Ourania Hatzidaki

Dionysis Goutsos

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Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in which the crisis has been communicated to the public by domestic policymakers or debated by elite, non-elite and resistant participants. Crisis discourses are also examined in the light of the rise of neo-nationalism and the extreme Right in both Greece and Cyprus. All contributions seek to meaningfully combine critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives for a better understanding of the Greek crisis as a socio-economic episode and as a discourse construct. Discourse-driven quantification and corpus-driven quantification complement each other in the critical examination of textual data as diverse as official government communications, party leader speeches, newspaper articles, public assembly resolutions, song lyrics, social media commentary and terrorist proclamations.

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 70] 2017. viii, 471 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 July 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.70

Table of Contents

Section I. Introduction

Chapter 1. The discourses of the Greek crisis

Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos | pp. 3–42

Section II. Greek crisis in the making

Chapter 2. The dream that turned into a nightmare: Addressing the Greek voters long and right before the crisis

Georgia Kostopoulou | pp. 45–82

Chapter 3. “Today I know, we know, that these sacrifices are heavy, but necessary”: Constructing governmental knowledge on Greece’s sovereign debt crisis

George Polymeneas | pp. 83–110

Section III. Debating the Greek crisis

Chapter 4. The chronicle of an ongoing crisis: Diachronic media representations of Greece and Europe in the Greek press

Christina Lykou and Bessie Mitsikopoulou | pp. 113–150

Chapter 5. The “theory of the two extremes”: A rhetorical topography for self- and other-identification across the Greek political spectrum

Ourania Hatzidaki | pp. 151–190

Chapter 6. Self-constructed and ascribed identity of the Greek protesters in Syntagma Square: From “where we are” to “who they are”

Dionysis Goutsos and George Polymeneas | pp. 191–222

Chapter 7. Taking stances on the Greek crisis: Evidence from Facebook interaction

Mariza Georgalou | pp. 223–262

Chapter 8. “Crisis is written all over me”: Greek songs in times of crisis

Stamatia Koutsoulelou | pp. 263–290

Section IV. Crisis, neo-nationalism and the extreme Right

Chapter 9. “Tragic event” vs. “cowardly murder”: A longitudinal study of Golden Dawn’s lexicogrammatical choices and discourse strategies

Georgia Fragaki | pp. 293–330

Chapter 10. Golden Dawn in the media during the Greek crisis: Realities, allusions and illusions

Effie Mouka and Ioannis E. Saridakis | pp. 331–374

Chapter 11. Golden Dawn and the traits of extreme right-wing discourse amidst the Greek crisis

Ioannis E. Saridakis | pp. 375–412

Chapter 12. “At night we’ll come and find you, traitors”: Cybercommunication in the Greek-Cypriot ultra-nationalist space

Fabienne Baider and Maria Constantinou | pp. 413–454

Section V. Afterword

Chapter 13. Making sense of the Greek crisis

Dionysis Goutsos and Ourania Hatzidaki | pp. 457–466

Index

“This volume is, to the best of my knowledge, the first book on Greek crisis discourse from a clearly linguistic perspective. [...] The volume is highly recommended to scholars interested in (critical) discourse and/or CL approaches to political communication. [...]. The volume undoubtedly contributes to new understandings of the Greek debt crisis and hopefully to a new reality where insiders’ voices and views will be louder and more powerful. As such, it is an inspiration for further (socio)linguistic research on how the discourses circulating in crisis-ridden states are constructed and debated.”

Villy Tsakona, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in Sociolinguistica (32/1) [https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/soci.2018.32.issue-1/soci-2018-0027/soci-2018-0027.xml?format=INT]

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