Greece in crisis : combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives

Intro -- 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 -- Chapter 2. The dream that turned into a nightmare: Addressing the Greek voters long and right before the crisis -- 1. Campaign talk as a subgenre of political discourse -- 2. The context of situation -- 3. Corpus and methodology -- 4. Data analysis -- 4.1 A positive prosody word: όραμα 'vision' -- 4.2 Other positive prosody words -- 4.3 Negative prosody words -- 4.4 A dual prosody word: αλήθεια 'truth' -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 3. "Today I know, we know, that these sacrifices are heavy, but necessary": Constructing governmental knowledge on Greece's sovereign debt crisis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidentiality in discourse -- 2.1 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 2010.