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Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives
Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 70] 2017
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Chapter 1
The discourses of the Greek crisis

The introduction to the volume offers an overview of existing research on the discourse pertaining to the Greek crisis and relates this to the papers included in it. It is suggested that previous works mainly focused on how the Greek crisis has been communicated by the mass media, and viewed from abroad. By contrast, this volume looks at how the Greeks themselves construe their own predicament, investigating a rich diversity of local voices, elite, non-elite and resistance. Methodologically, contrary to extant research, which principally draws on the results of content analysis, this volume concentrates on the mechanics of Greek crisis rhetoric. To this end, papers combine a sizeable array of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis techniques, employed in multifarious ways so as to provide nuanced analyses of Greek crisis discourses.
Keywords: content analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, Greek crisis
Article outline
  • 1.General remarks
  • 2.The discourses of the Greek crisis: A research review
    • 2.1The causes of the Greek crisis
    • 2.2The management of the Greek crisis
    • 2.3The consequences of the Greek crisis
      • 2.3.1The effects of the adverse crisis-related publicity on Greece’s image
      • 2.3.2Polarization in the crisis debate
      • 2.3.3The impact of the crisis on the lives of the Greeks
  • 3.Greek crisis and the Greeks: A corpus and critical discourse analysis approach
  • 4.Outline of this volume
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 26 July 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.70.01hat
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