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Discourses of aggression in Greek digitally-mediated communication
Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Ioannis E. Saridakis
[Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:2] 2020
► pp. 188–231

A corpus study of outgrouping in Greek radical right computer-mediated discourses

ORCID logo | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
ORCID logo | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

This paper reports on a large-scale study on how “enemies” are linguistically constructed by Greece’s radical right. The research combines corpus linguistics approaches and insights from critical discourse analysis, with the aim of analysing the referential/nomination and predication strategies used to delineate “others” as outgroups. Drawing on a 90 million-word corpus comprising the full set of texts from 13 radical right web-based platforms from 2001 to 2019, the research identifies and statistically classifies principal designators and qualifiers. By closely examining their diachronic variations and correlation with significant sociopolitical events, we critically categorise and discuss the empirical findings and thus unveil topics, as well as aspects of the argumentation, pooled by Greece’s radical right in their discursive constructions.

Keywords: populist radical right discourse, outcasting strategies, ethnic, religious and migrant “others”, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, Greece
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Qualitative approaches, classification schemes and related studies on radical right discourses
  • 3.Corpus-based research on Greek radical right CMC, research focus
  • 4.Data sources and corpus analysis
  • 5.Key findings
  • 6.Key lemma profiling: Longitudinal and collocational variation
    • 6.1μετανάστης ‘immigrant’, λαθρομετανάστης ‘clandestine immigrant’, αλλοδαπός ‘foreigner’
    • 6.2Τούρκος ‘Turk’
    • 6.3Αλβανός ‘Albanian’
    • 6.4Σκοπιανός ‘Skopjan’
    • 6.5μουσουλμάνος ‘Muslim’, ισλαμιστής ‘Islamist’, τζιχαντιστής ‘Jihadist’
    • 6.6Εβραίος ‘Jew’, (Αμερικανο-)Σιωνιστής ‘(American-)Zionist’
  • 7.Summary of findings and conclusion
  • Access to detailed data
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 4 August 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00038.sar
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