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

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880-01 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.

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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