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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. 375–412

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

This is a corpus-driven study of the lexical and textual semantics and pragmatics of Greek neo-nationalist discourse at the time of the Greek crisis. A corpus of texts culled from Golden Dawn’s website has been examined by corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis techniques in order to investigate the positioning of Greek neo-nationalist discourse and identify the conceptual link between the rampant crisis and the ideology of this extreme-right party. The focus is on the lexical and argumentative means used by Golden Dawn to formulate its core ideological pillars by exploiting the crisis and to establish itself in the political and social arena.
Keywords: argumentation, Golden Dawn, ideology
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Research aims and hypotheses
  • 2.Corpus data
  • 3.Corpus-driven analysis
    • 3.1Categorising Golden Dawn’s lexemes
    • 3.2Lexicosemantic diversity and conceptual density
    • 3.3Keyword analysis
  • 4.Analysis of central concepts
    • 4.1“Us” concepts
      • 4.1.1u1: εμείς, μας ‘us, we, our’
      • 4.1.2u2: Έλληνας ‘Greek’
      • 4.1.3u3: Λαός ‘people’
      • 4.1.4u4: Έθνος ‘nation’
    • 4.2“Them” concepts
      • 4.2.1f1: καθεστώς ‘regime’
      • 4.2.2f2: παγκόσμιος, παγκοσμιοποίηση ‘global’, ‘globalisation’
      • 4.2.3f3: δημοκράτης, δημοκρατία ‘democrat’, ‘democracy’
      • 4.2.4f4: σιωνισμός ‘Zionism’
      • 4.2.5“Systemic” political forces and concepts
      • 4.2.6f7: μετανάστης ‘immigrant’, f16 εγκληματικότητα ‘criminality’
    • 4.3Crisis- and economy-related concepts
      • 4.3.1c1: κράτος ‘state’
      • 4.3.2c2: κοινωνία ‘society’
      • 4.3.3c3: τράπεζα ‘bank’
      • 4.3.4c4: χρήμα ‘money’
    • 4.4Summary of findings
  • 5.Semantic relations
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 July 2017
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