Greece in Crisis
Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives
Editors
| Hellenic Air Force Academy
| National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Section I. Introduction
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Chapter 1. The discourses of the Greek crisisOurania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos | pp. 3–42
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Section II. Greek crisis in the making
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Chapter 2. The dream that turned into a nightmare: Addressing the Greek voters long and right before the crisisGeorgia Kostopoulou | pp. 45–82
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Chapter 3. “Today I know, we know, that these sacrifices are heavy, but necessary”: Constructing governmental knowledge on Greece’s sovereign debt crisisGeorge Polymeneas | pp. 83–110
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Section III. Debating the Greek crisis
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Chapter 4. The chronicle of an ongoing crisis: Diachronic media representations of Greece and Europe in the Greek pressChristina Lykou and Bessie Mitsikopoulou | pp. 113–150
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Chapter 5. The “theory of the two extremes”: A rhetorical topography for self- and other-identification across the Greek political spectrumOurania Hatzidaki | pp. 151–190
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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
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Chapter 7. Taking stances on the Greek crisis: Evidence from Facebook interactionMariza Georgalou | pp. 223–262
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Chapter 8. “Crisis is written all over me”: Greek songs in times of crisisStamatia Koutsoulelou | pp. 263–290
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Section IV. Crisis, neo-nationalism and the extreme Right
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Chapter 9. “Tragic event” vs. “cowardly murder”: A longitudinal study of Golden Dawn’s lexicogrammatical choices and discourse strategiesGeorgia Fragaki | pp. 293–330
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Chapter 10. Golden Dawn in the media during the Greek crisis: Realities, allusions and illusionsEffie Mouka and Ioannis E. Saridakis | pp. 331–374
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Chapter 11. Golden Dawn and the traits of extreme right-wing discourse amidst the Greek crisisIoannis E. Saridakis | pp. 375–412
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Chapter 12. “At night we’ll come and find you, traitors”: Cybercommunication in the Greek-Cypriot ultra-nationalist spaceFabienne Baider and Maria Constantinou | pp. 413–454
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Section V. Afterword
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Chapter 13. Making sense of the Greek crisisDionysis Goutsos and Ourania Hatzidaki | pp. 457–466
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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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Subjects & Metadata
Communication Studies
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics