Greece in crisis : combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives / edited by Ourania Hatzidaki, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Dionysis Goutsos, University of Athens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hatzidaki, Ourania, editor.

Goutsos, Dionysis, editor.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture (DAPSAC), 1569-9463 ; volume 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Greece.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Greece--Economic conditions--21st century.

Greece.

Greece--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

Summary:

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in which the crisis has been communicated to the public by domestic policymakers or debated by elite, non-elite and resistant participants. Crisis discourses are also examined in the light of the rise of neo-nationalism and the extreme Right in both Greece and Cyprus. All contributions seek to meaningfully combine critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives for a better understanding of the Greek crisis as a socio-economic episode and as a discourse construct. Discourse-driven quantification and corpus-driven quantification complement each other in the critical examination of textual data as diverse as official government communications, party leader speeches, newspaper articles, public assembly resolutions, song lyrics, social media commentary and terrorist proclamations.

Contents:

Intro

Greece in Crisis

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

Section I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction: The discourses of the Greek crisis

1. General remarks

2. The discourses of the Greek crisis: A research review

2.1 The causes of the Greek crisis

2.2 The management of the Greek crisis

2.3 The consequences of the Greek crisis

3. Greek crisis and the Greeks: A corpus and critical discourse analysis approach

4. Outline of this volume

Bibliography

Section II. Greek crisis in the making

Chapter 2. The dream that turned into a nightmare: Addressing the Greek voters long and right before the crisis

1. Campaign talk as a subgenre of political discourse

2. The context of situation

3. Corpus and methodology

4. Data analysis

4.1 A positive prosody word: όραμα 'vision'

4.2 Other positive prosody words

4.3 Negative prosody words

4.4 A dual prosody word: αλήθεια 'truth'

5. Concluding remarks

References

Chapter 3. "Today I know, we know, that these sacrifices are heavy, but necessary": Constructing governmental knowledge on Greece's sovereign debt crisis

1. Introduction

2. Evidentiality in discourse

2.1 From grammar and pragmatics to discourse

2.2 Evidentiality in political discourse

3. The political context of the study: The IMF in the EU

4. Data and methodology

5. Data analysis

6. Conclusions

Section iII. Debating the Greek crisis

Chapter 4. The chronicle of an ongoing crisis: Diachronic media representations of Greece and Europe in the Greek press

2. The international press on Greece: How they view us

3. Research context, methodology and data

4. The corpus

5. The beginning of the crisis: The period of shock

5.1 Prominent discourses in 2010.

5.2 Representations of Greece and Europe/the European Union in 2010

6. In the midst of the crisis: The period of the Grexit threat

6.1 Prominent discourses in 2012

6.2 Representations of Greece and Europe/the EU in 2012

7. The recent phase of the crisis: A period of reflection

7.1 Prominent discourses in 2014 - January 2015

7.2 Representations of Greece and Europe/the EU in 2014 - January 2015

8. Greece as a "special case" and the challenging of its European identity

9. Conclusion

Chapter 5. The "theory of the two extremes": A rhetorical topography for self- and other-identification across the Greek political spectrum

2. Theoretical framework and methodology

2.1 The notion of extreme/extremism as a political stigma

2.2 Collective political identity as organizational identity

3. The data

4. Publicly debating the notion of extremism: A critical discourse analysis

4.1 Initial observations

4.2 The stigmatizers

4.3 The stigmatized

5. Conclusion

Appendix

Chapter 6. Self-constructed and ascribed identity of the Greek protesters in Syntagma Square: From "where we are" to "who they are"

1. The Greek crisis and its protesters

2. Data and methodology

3. Identity and public space in the Greek protests

4. Contemporary media texts

5. Later media texts

6. Conclusion: Constructed and ascribed identity of the Greek protests

Appendix 1. Top 50 positive and negative lexical keywords in Press-C (Reference corpus: GA)

Appendix 2. Top 50 positive and negative lexical keywords in Press-L (Reference corpus: GA)

Chapter 7. Taking stances on the Greek crisis: Evidence from Facebook interaction

2. Crisis, discourse and reflexivity

3. Stance

4. Facebook affordances and stance-taking

5. Data and methods.

6. Analysis

6.1 Positioning

6.2 (Dis)alignment

6.3 Conclusions on stance-taking strategies

6.4 Stance-taking patterns

7. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

appendix

Chapter 8. "Crisis is written all over me": Greek songs in times of crisis

2. Methodology and data

3. Data analysis

3.1 Analysing the song corpus (C1)

3.2 Analysing the corpus of comments (C2)

4. Conclusions

Translation of the song 'Melina'

Section Iv. Crisis, neo-nationalism and the extreme Right

Chapter 9. "Tragic event" vs. "cowardly murder": A longitudinal study of Golden Dawn's lexicogrammatical choices and discourse strategies

3. Classification of the Golden Dawn texts under analysis

4. Lexicogrammatical choices in the F and F&amp

K subcorpora

4.1 Process

4.2 Patients

4.3 Actors

4.4 Circumstances: Place of action

5. Discourse strategies

Chapter 10. Golden Dawn in the media during the Greek crisis: Realities, allusions and illusions

1. The historical and political context

2. Corpus and methodology

3. Golden Dawn in the Greek press

3.1 Kathimerini

3.2 Ta Nea, To Vima

3.3 Avgi, Efimerida ton Syntakton, Eleftherotypia

3.4 Rizospastis

4. Golden Dawn in the foreign press

4.1 The Economist

4.2 The Guardian

4.3 Le Monde

4.4 Libération

5. Discussion and conclusions

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

1. Introduction: Research aims and hypotheses

2. Corpus data

3. Corpus-driven analysis

3.1 Categorising Golden Dawn's lexemes

3.2 Lexicosemantic diversity and conceptual density

3.3 Keyword analysis

4. Analysis of central concepts

4.1 "Us" concepts.

4.2 "Them" concepts

4.3 Crisis- and economy-related concepts

4.4 Summary of findings

5. Semantic relations

Chapter 12. "At night we'll come and find you, traitors": Cybercommunication in the Greek-Cypriot ultra-nationalist space

2. Cyprus, ELAM and nationalistic discourse

3. Cybercommunication and nationalist parties

4.1 Data

4.2 Methodology

5. Textual construction of the Self and the Other in pro-ELAM discourses: An overview

5.1 Representation of the Self

5.2 Representation of the Other

6. Analysis of avatars and pseudonyms

6.1 General comments

6.2 Strategies of justification, constructing the Self

6. Discussion

Section v. Afterword

Chapter 13. Making sense of the Greek crisis

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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