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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
► pp. 113–150

Chapter 4
The chronicle of an ongoing crisis

Diachronic media representations of Greece and Europe in the Greek press

This study explores media discourses and representations of Greece and Europe in the Greek press in the context of the recent socio-economic crisis. While several studies have explored the representation of Greece in the international press, very few have investigated the discursive construction of crisis in the Greek press. Theoretically and methodologically, the study draws on the tradition of critical discourse analysis, which it combines with corpus linguistics tools. The employed methodology is qualitative and interpretative in nature and attempts an analysis of media texts at a discoursal and grammatical level. The analysis is both synchronic and diachronic, following the development of the crisis through two newspapers, Kathimerini and Ta Nea, at different phases of the crisis.
Keywords: Europe, EU, Greek press, media representations, social actors, systemic functional grammar
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The international press on Greece: How they view us
  • 3.Research context, methodology and data
  • 4. The corpus
  • 5.The beginning of the crisis: The period of shock
    • 5.1Prominent discourses in 2010
    • 5.2Representations of Greece and Europe/the European Union in 2010
  • 6.In the midst of the crisis: The period of the Grexit threat
    • 6.1Prominent discourses in 2012
    • 6.2Representations of Greece and Europe/the EU in 2012
    • 7.The recent phase of the crisis: A period of reflection
    • 7.1Prominent discourses in 2014 – January 2015
    • 7.2Representations of Greece and Europe/the EU in 2014 – January 2015
  • 8.Greece as a “special case” and the challenging of its European identity
  • 9.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 July 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.70.04lyk
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