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

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC), 1569-9463 ; volume 70
Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 70.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 crisis1. 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 discourse2.1 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; References; 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; 1. Introduction; 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 20105.2 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; References.
Chapter 5. The "theory of the two extremes": A rhetorical topography for self- and other-identification across the Greek political spectrum1. Introduction; 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; References; Appendix.
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Subject Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Greece -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Greece.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Greece -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hatzidaki, Ourania, editor.
Goutsos, Dionysis, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Greece in crisis. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017 9789027206619 (DLC) 2017003488
ISBN 9789027265685 (pdf, ePub)
9027265682 (pdf, ePub)
9789027206619 (hardback ; alkaline paper)