A corpus study of outgrouping in Greek radical right computer-mediated discourses
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.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Qualitative approaches, classification schemes and related studies on radical right discourses
- 3.Corpus-based research on Greek radical right CMC, research focus
- 4.Data sources and corpus analysis
- 5.Key findings
- 6.Key lemma profiling: Longitudinal and collocational variation
- 6.1μετανάστης ‘immigrant’, λαθρομετανάστης ‘clandestine immigrant’, αλλοδαπός ‘foreigner’
- 6.2Τούρκος ‘Turk’
- 6.3Αλβανός ‘Albanian’
- 6.4Σκοπιανός ‘Skopjan’
- 6.5μουσουλμάνος ‘Muslim’, ισλαμιστής ‘Islamist’, τζιχαντιστής ‘Jihadist’
- 6.6Εβραίος ‘Jew’, (Αμερικανο-)Σιωνιστής ‘(American-)Zionist’
- 7.Summary of findings and conclusion
- Access to detailed data
- Notes
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