Dionysis Goutsos
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dionysis Goutsos is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2950-578X | E‑ISSN 2950‑5798
Title
Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives
Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos
Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 70] 2017. viii, 471 pp.
2025 Language change and (im)politeness in film discourse: Evidence from the Corpus of Greek Film Dialogue Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1:2, pp. 177–202 | Article
The paper examines language change based on evidence from the Corpus of Greek Film Dialogue, an extensive corpus of dialogues from 105 Greek films, spanning nine decades (from 1938 to 2018, approx. 900,000 words in total). Keywords are identified for each decade of film dialogues with reference… read more
2018 The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century: A diachronic corpus study of recent language change Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 149–170 | Chapter
Greek diglossia has been mainly studied so far by focusing on linguistic attitudes rather than investigating actual use. This paper aims at studying evidence from a number of genres in the Diachronic Corpus of Greek of the 20th Century, including academic texts, public speeches, film scripts,… read more
2017 Chapter 4. A corpus-based approach to functional markers in Greek: Exploring the role of position Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives, Fedriani, Chiara and Andrea Sansó (eds.), pp. 125–150 | Chapter
The paper attempts to explore the role of position in Greek by examining how positional preferences for markers correlate with their functions in the language. A large number of these items are investigated in four sub-corpora of academic texts, newspaper opinion articles, Parliament speeches… read more
2017 Chapter 6. Self-constructed and ascribed identity of the Greek protesters in Syntagma Square: From “where we are” to “who they are” Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives, Hatzidaki, Ourania and Dionysis Goutsos (eds.), pp. 191–222 | Chapter
In this chapter we contrast our findings from a previous study of the textual, discursive and social practices of the Greek protester movements, based on data from the General Assembly proceedings and their resolutions (Goutsos and Polymeneas 2014), with how the protesters in Syntagma square were… read more
2017 Chapter 13. Making sense of the Greek crisis Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives, Hatzidaki, Ourania and Dionysis Goutsos (eds.), pp. 457–466 | Chapter
The epilogue to this volume summarizes its relevance and contribution as far as the synergy between critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics is concerned. It further discusses the issue of quantification, which seems to be the critical parameter in this synergy, and proposes the concept… read more
2017 Chapter 1. The discourses of the Greek crisis Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives, Hatzidaki, Ourania and Dionysis Goutsos (eds.), pp. 3–42 | Chapter
The introduction to the volume offers an overview of existing research on the discourse pertaining to the Greek crisis and relates this to the papers included in it. It is suggested that previous works mainly focused on how the Greek crisis has been communicated by the mass media, and viewed from… read more
2016 Identity as space: Localism in the Greek protests of Syntagma Square Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements, Martín Rojo, Luisa (ed.), pp. 99–126 | Article
The chapter studies the textual, discursive and social practices of the Greek “aganaktismeni” (indignados) movements, which mainly took place in the public gathering of tens of thousands of Greeks in Syntagma Square, outside the Greek parliament from May to August 2011. Data come from multiple… read more
2014 Identity as space: Localism in the Greek protests of Syntagma Square Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements, Martín Rojo, Luisa (ed.), pp. 675–701 | Article
The paper studies the textual, discursive and social practices of the Greek “aganaktismeni” (indignados) movements, which mainly took place in the public gathering of tens of thousands of Greeks in Syntagma Square, outside the Greek parliament from May to August 2011. Data come from multiple… read more
2009 Lexical choices of gender identity in Greek genres: The view from corpora Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts, Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Vally Lytra (eds.), pp. 317–340 | Article
This paper examines the role of the lexical pairs άνδρας/άντρας ‘man’ vs. γυναίκα ‘woman’ and αγόρι ‘boy’ vs. κορίτσι ‘girl’ in the construction of gender identity. We use corpus methodology to study the frequency, meanings and collocations of the noun pairs in five different genres of Greek,… read more
2001 Sequential and interpersonal aspects of English and Greek answering machine messages Pragmatics 11:4, pp. 357–377 | Article
The paper studies the genre of answering machine messages (AMMs) in English and Greek from a comparative linguistic perspective. The analysis of extensive data in both languages shows that the length of most AMMs is restricted (25 to 30 words) and related to the gender of the caller rather than… read more
1999 Translation in Bilingual Lexicography: Editing a New English-Greek Dictionary Babel 45:2, pp. 107–126 | Article
Abstract Greek bilingual dictionaries have long been marked by lack of naturalness and inadequate semantic and stylistic discrimination between the various equivalents suggested in translation. Although this is a general problem of bilingual dictionaries, which necessarily deal with… read more
1994 A corpus-based approach to modern Greek language research and teaching Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993, Philippaki-Warburton, Irene, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. 507–514 | Article