Salomi Boukala
List of John Benjamins publications in which Salomi Boukala is involved.
2025 Examining the discursive construction of Chinese grassroots cybernationalism: A case study on the permanent residence law for foreigners Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 13:2, pp. 276–301 | Article
Recent years have seen a surge in Chinese grassroots nationalism. Based on the public discussion on Weibo, the largest social media platform in China, this study investigated the cybernationalism (re)produced during the People’s Republic of China’s release of the Regulations on the… read more
2023 Towards an ethnographic approach to social media discourses: Exploring ethnic nationalism and the Greek ‘right’ to the name ‘Macedonia’ Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse, KhosraviNik, Majid (ed.), pp. 83–106 | Chapter
This chapter intends to show how the arena of political debate has relocated from Parliament to Facebook in contemporary Greece and explore the parameters and impact of such relocation in discourses of contemporary political polemics. It explores the way social media spaces combine bottom-up and… read more
2021 ‘We need to talk about the hegemony of the left’: The normalisation of extreme right discourse in Greece Journal of Language and Politics 20:3, pp. 361–382 | Article
This article seeks to explore the discursive rediscovery of the left menace and the ideological relevance between the far right and the right wing in Greece in times of political turmoil. Drawing on some historical aspects of modern Greece, first, I intend to explain the resurgence of Greece’s… read more
2018 False reasoning and argumentation in the Twitter discourse of the Prime Minister of Israel Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:1, pp. 58–78 | Article
This paper explores the Twitter discourse of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, regarding security issues and the threat of ‘Islamist terrorism’ as manifested in the latest election campaign (March 2015) and his tweets and statements on Operation Protective Edge (July – August… read more
2015 European identities and the revival of nationalism in the European Union: A discourse historical approach Discourse analysis, policy analysis, and the borders of EU identity, Carta, Caterina and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 87–109 | Article
To date, the concept of ‘European identity’ remains quite vague and obscure. Who is European and who is not? What values do Europeans share, and who is included in or excluded from the European community? This paper deals with the renegotiation of European identity/ies and the simultaneous… read more