Article published in:
Discourses of aggression in Greek digitally-mediated communicationEdited 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
Ioannis E. Saridakis | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Effie Mouka | 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
Published online: 04 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00038.sar
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00038.sar
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