Cover not available

In:Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives
Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 70] 2017
► pp. 413–454

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload Book PDF
authorization required

Chapter 12
“At night we’ll come and find you, traitors”

Cybercommunication in the Greek-Cypriot ultra-nationalist space

Published online: 26 July 2017
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.70.12bai
Abstract
Borrowing concepts from traditional semiotics, lexical semantics and critical discourse analysis, this chapter examines how the concept of “nationhood” is constructed via texts, as well as avatars and pseudonyms of Golden Dawn and ELAM (its Greek Cypriot counterpart) followers in virtual communication, while taking into consideration their discourses and the parties’ ideology as represented in official written texts and speeches. The study focuses on the emotions of pride (Self), contempt (Other) and empathy (Nation), especially in the Greek Cypriot context, and argues that the targets of these emotions are very much part of the socio-historical context of the community involved.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Cyprus, ELAM and nationalistic discourse
  • 3.Cybercommunication and nationalist parties
  • 4.Data and methodology
    • 4.1Data
    • 4.2Methodology
  • 5.Textual construction of the Self and the Other in pro-ELAM discourses: An overview
    • 5.1Representation of the Self
    • 5.2Representation of the Other
      • 5.2.1Turks, communists, immigrants
      • 5.2.2The British
      • 5.2.3The enemy from outside, the distant enemy
  • 6.Analysis of avatars and pseudonyms
    • 6.1General comments
    • 6.2 Strategies of justification, constructing the Self
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
References (49)
References
Adams, Josh, and Vincent J. Roscigno. 2005. “White Supremacists, Oppositional Culture and the World Wide Web.” Social Forces 84 (2): 759–778. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Armstrong, John. 1982. Nations before Nationalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Babiniotis, Georgios. 2002. Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής γλώσσας. 2η έκδοση. [Dictionary of Modern Greek Language. 2nd edition]. Athens: Lexicology Centre.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Baider, Fabienne. 2012. “Hate, Fear and Anger. Sociolinguistic Differences.” Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin, August 21–24.
. 2013. “Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics.” In Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics, ed. by Istvan Kecskes, and Jesús Romero-Trillo, 7–25. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Baider, Fabienne, and Maria Constantinou. 2014a. “How to Make People Feel Good when Wishing Hell: Golden Dawn and National Front Discourse, Emotions and Argumentation.” In New Empirical and Theoretical Paradigms Series: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, ed. by Jesús Romero-Trillo, 179–210. Dordrecht: Springer.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2014b. “Language of Cyber-Politics: ‘Imaging/Imagining’ Communities.” Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 10 (2): 213–242. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2015. “Jean-Marie Le Pen vs. Marine Le Pen: Un ‘ethos émotif’ différent?” Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 42 (4): 3–19. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2017. “‘Burn the Antifa Traitors at the Stake…’. Transnational Political Cyber-exchanges, Proximization of Emotions.” In Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics. Pragmatics and Beyond, ed. by Stavros Assimakopoulos, and Istvan Kecskes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bednarek, Monika. 2008. Emotion Talk across Corpora. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Billig, Michael. 1991. Ideology and Opinions. London: Sage.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bouvier, Gwen. 2012. “How Facebook Users Select Identity Categories for Self-presentation.” Journal of Multicultural Discourse 7 (1): 37–57. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bownman-Grieve, Lorraine. 2009. “Exploring ‘Stormfront’: A Virtual Community of the Radical Right.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 32 (11): 989–1007. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Caiani, Manuela, and Linda Parenti. 2013. European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet. London: Ashgate.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Christou, Miranda, and Elena Ioannidou. 2014. “Opening Networks, Sealing Borders. Youth and Racist Discourse on Internet.” In Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East, ed. by Linda Herrera with Rehab Sakr, 121–138. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
de Cillia, Rudolf, Martin Reisigl, and Ruth Wodak. 1999. “The Discursive Construction of National Identities.” Discourse and Society 10 (2): 149–172. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Delwit, Pascal (ed.). 2012. Le Front National. Mutations de l’Extrême Droite Française. Bruxelles: Editions de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Elgenius, Gabriella. 2005. Expressions of nationhood: national symbols and ceremonies in contemporary Europe. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ellinas, Antonis A. 2014. “Neo-Nazism in an Established Democracy: The Persistence of the Golden Dawn in Greece.” South European Society and Politics 20 (1): 1–22. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Firth, Raymond. 1973. Symbols: Public and Private. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ford, Robert. 2010. “Who Might Vote for the BNP? Survey Evidence on the Electoral Potential of the Extreme Right in Britain.” In The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain, ed. by Roger Eatwell, and Matthew J. Goodwin, 145–168. London and New York: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Georges, Fanny. 2009. “Représentation de Soi et Identité Numérique. Une Approche Sémiotique et Quantitative de l’Emprise Culturelle du Web 2.0.”. Réseaux 2 (154): 165–193. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Grivaud, Gilles (ed.). 2001. Le(s) Mishellénisme(s): Actes du Séminaire Organisé à l’École Française d’Athènes (16–18 Mars 1998). Athènes: École Française d’Athènes.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hart, Christopher. 2010. Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science: New Perspectives on Immigration Discourse. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ignazi, Piero. 2006. Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Katsourides, Yiannos. 2009. Το κομματικό σύστημα στην Κύπρο (1878–1931): Συγκρότηση και ιδιομορφίες. [Τhe party system in Cyprus (1878–1931): Structure and idiosyncrasies]. PhD thesis, University of Cyprus.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2013. “Determinants of Extreme Right Reappearance in Cyprus: The National Popular Front (ELAM), Golden Dawn’s Sister Party.” South European Society and Politics 18 (4): 567–589. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Martey, Rosa Mikeal, and Mia Consalvo. 2011. “Performing the Looking-Glass Self: Avatar Appearance and Group Identity in Second Life, Popular Communication.” The International Journal of Media and Culture 9 (3): 165–180.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Miles, Robert, and Malcom Brown. 2003. Racism. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mudde, Cas. 2007. Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Neustaedter, Carman, and Elena Fedorovskaya. 2009. “Avatar Appearances and Representation of Self: Learning from Second Life.” Proceedings of AAAI’s Fall Symposium Series on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. Available at: [URL].
O’Connor, Nigel. 2013. “Cyprus’ Golden Dawn Wing Confident of Success.” Aljazeera. 7 November.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Padovani, Cinzia. 2008. “The Extreme Right and its Media in Italy.” International Journal of Communication 2: 753–770.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Papaioannou, Kostis. 2013. Τα «καθαρά χέρια» της Χρυσής Αυγής. Εφαρμoγές ναζιστικής καθαρότητας. [The Clean Hands of Golden Dawn. Implementation of Nazi Cleanliness]. Athens: Metaichmio.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Paraskeva-Veloudoyanni, Despoina. 2015. Ο εχθρός, το αίμα, ο τιμωρός. Αναλύοντας δεκατρείς λόγους του "αρχηγού" της Χρυσής Αυγής. [The Enemy, the Blood, the Punisher. Analysing 13 Speeches of the “Leader” of Golden Dawn]. Athens: Nisos.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pavlou, Miltos. 2001. “«Οι λαθρέµποροι του φόβου»: Pατσιστικός λόγος και τύπος µιας υποψήφιας µητρόπολης [‘The Smugglers of Fear’: Racist discourse and immigrants in the press of a potential metropolis].” In Immigrants in Greece, ed. by Athanassios Marvakis, Dimitris Parsanoglou, and Miltos Pavlou, 127–162. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Simmel, Georg. 1957 [1904]. “Fashion.” American Journal of Sociology 62: 541–558. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Smith, Anthony. 1998. Nationalism and Modernism. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Reisigl, Martin, and Ruth Wodak. 2001. Discourse and Discrimination. Rhetorics of Racism and Anti-semitism. London and New York: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Taguieff, Pierre-André. 2012. Le Nouveau National-Populisme. Paris: CNRS editions.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Taylor, T. L. 2002. “Living Digitally: Embodiment in Virtual Worlds.” In The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments, ed. by Ralph Schroeder, 40–62. London: Springer. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
van Dijk, Teun A. 2001. “Critical Discourse Analysis.” In Handbook of Discourse Analysis, ed. by Deborah Tannen, Deborah Schiffrin, and Heidi Hamilton, 352–371. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wells, Charlotte. 1999. “Leeches on the Body Politic: Xenophobia and Witchcraft in Early Modern French Political Thought.” French Historical Studies, 22 (3): 351–377 Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wodak, Ruth. 2001a. “What CDA is about. A Summary of its History, Important Concepts and its Developments.” In Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis, ed. by Ruth Wodak, and Michael Meyer, 1–13. London: Sage.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2001b. “The Discourse Historical Approach.” In Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis, ed. by Ruth Wodak, and Michael Meyer, 66–94. London: Sage.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wodak, Ruth, and Michael Meyer. 2001. Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wodak, Ruth, Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl, and Karin Liebhart. 2009. The Discursive Construction of National Identity. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (6)

Cited by six other publications

Baider, Fabienne H. & Lorella Sini
2021. Le complotisme « transnational » et le discours de haine : le cas de Chypre et de l’Italie. Mots :125 ► pp. 15 ff. DOI logo
Baider, Fabienne & Maria Constantinou
2020. Covert hate speech. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:2 ► pp. 262 ff. DOI logo
Hatzidaki, Ourania & Ioannis E. Saridakis
2020. Discourses of aggression in Greek digitally-mediated communication. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:2 ► pp. 147 ff. DOI logo
Saridakis, Ioannis E. & Effie Mouka
2020. A corpus study of outgrouping in Greek radical right computer-mediated discourses. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:2 ► pp. 188 ff. DOI logo
Constantinou, Maria
2019. Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoons in question: stances, translational narratives and identity construction from a cross-linguistic perspective. Social Semiotics 29:5 ► pp. 698 ff. DOI logo
Baider, Fabienne H.
2017. Thinking globally, acting locally. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:2 ► pp. 178 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 8 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue