Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece
Dimitris Serafis
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 99] 2023. xiv, 181 pp.
Dimitris Serafis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dimitris Serafis plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2024 Chapter 3. Normalizing assimilation in antiracist (con)texts and (re)producing liquid racism: Argumentative inferences in Greek right- and left‑wing political discourses Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 71–92 | Chapter
This chapter aims to show how liquid racism (Weaver 2016) emerges when assimilationist viewpoints are argumentatively normalized in mainstream (right- and left-wing) political-parliamentary discourses in Greece. I analyze two seminal speeches given by two Greek political leaders, namely PM… read more
2024 Critical reconstructions of populist multimodal argumentation: Illustrations from right-wing parties’ Facebook posts on the Russo-Ukrainian refugee issue Multimodal Argumentation: Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:2 (2024), Stöckl, Hartmut and Assimakis Tseronis (eds.), pp. 232–259 | Article
This article extends to the study of populist argumentation a framework for the analysis of inferences implicitly emerging from multimodal artifacts. The framework builds on a post-structuralist approach to populism and integrates multimodal critical discourse studies and argumentation studies,… read more
2023 Towards an ethnographic approach to social media discourses: Exploring ethnic nationalism and the Greek ‘right’ to the name ‘Macedonia’ Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse, KhosraviNik, Majid (ed.), pp. 83–106 | Chapter
This chapter intends to show how the arena of political debate has relocated from Parliament to Facebook in contemporary Greece and explore the parameters and impact of such relocation in discourses of contemporary political polemics. It explores the way social media spaces combine bottom-up and… read more
2022 (De-)constructing New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern’s initiative to wear the hijab after the Christchurch terrorist attack: Critical perspectives on newspapers’ discourse and argumentation Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:2, pp. 157–179 | Article
This paper examines the discursive construction of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after she wore a veil following the unprecedented terror attack in two mosques in the city of Christchurch in 2019. The articles analyzed are collected from three main newspapers published in New Zealand’s three… read more
2022 Sailing to Ithaka : The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 344–369 | Article
This paper examines the reasoning lines in PM Alexis Tsipras’ political discourse in critical moments of SYRIZA’s tenure as the ruling party in Greece. Adopting a CDS perspective, we zoom in on the patterns that underlie the (de)legitimization of the crisis-ridden EU in three seminal speeches by… read more
2020 Legitimizing austerity in crisis-hit Greece: (Re-)articulating ‘social-democracy’ in political discourses of the socialist and left-populist parties Journal of Language and Politics 19:4, pp. 691–711 | Article
The article examines two key-speeches given by Greek PMs, at crucial junctures of the Greek crisis, both aiming to legitimize austerity programs to the Greek population. The speeches by Papandreou (Socialists) and Tsipras (Radical Left) represent critical moments of the crisis as the two PMs… read more