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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. 413–454

Chapter 12
“At night we’ll come and find you, traitors”

Cybercommunication in the Greek-Cypriot ultra-nationalist space

Borrowing concepts from traditional semiotics, lexical semantics and critical discourse analysis, this chapter examines how the concept of “nationhood” is constructed via texts, as well as avatars and pseudonyms of Golden Dawn and ELAM (its Greek Cypriot counterpart) followers in virtual communication, while taking into consideration their discourses and the parties’ ideology as represented in official written texts and speeches. The study focuses on the emotions of pride (Self), contempt (Other) and empathy (Nation), especially in the Greek Cypriot context, and argues that the targets of these emotions are very much part of the socio-historical context of the community involved.

Keywords: nationalism, Self and Other, virtual communication, YouTube
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Cyprus, ELAM and nationalistic discourse
  • 3.Cybercommunication and nationalist parties
  • 4.Data and methodology
    • 4.1Data
    • 4.2Methodology
  • 5.Textual construction of the Self and the Other in pro-ELAM discourses: An overview
    • 5.1Representation of the Self
    • 5.2Representation of the Other
      • 5.2.1Turks, communists, immigrants
      • 5.2.2The British
      • 5.2.3The enemy from outside, the distant enemy
  • 6.Analysis of avatars and pseudonyms
    • 6.1General comments
    • 6.2 Strategies of justification, constructing the Self
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 26 July 2017
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