TY - JOUR
T1 - Sailing to Ithaka The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union
AU - Serafis, Dimitris
AU - Kitis, E. Dimitris
AU - Assimakopoulos, Stavros
N1 - Funding Information:
Dimitris Serafis is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct lecturer, currently based at the University of Malta. His research interests lie at the intersection of Critical Discourse Studies, Social Semiotics and Multimodality, and Argumentation Studies, with his current focus being on topics such as migration and hate speech, populism, and communication in times of crises. He has been published (among others) in journals
Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the support of COST Action CA17132 ‘European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis’ (http://www.publicpolicyargument.eu).
Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2022/3/8
Y1 - 2022/3/8
N2 - This paper examines the reasoning lines in PM Alexis Tsipras’ political discourse in critical moments of SYRIZA’s tenure as the ruling party in Greece. Adopting a CDS perspective, we zoom in on the patterns that underlie the (de)legitimization of the crisis-ridden EU in three seminal speeches by PM Tsipras during the Greek/EU financial crisis. To this end, we integrate systemic-functional and cognitive linguistic tools with a view to scrutinizing representational meaning, before turning to employ the notions of endoxon and topos/locus as a means of studying the particular argumentative inferences, triggered by the respective discursive representations. Through this lens, we show how the overall argumentation can be seen as supporting the (de-)legitimation of dominant EU austerity perspectives while transforming SYRIZA into a pro-austerity voice.
AB - This paper examines the reasoning lines in PM Alexis Tsipras’ political discourse in critical moments of SYRIZA’s tenure as the ruling party in Greece. Adopting a CDS perspective, we zoom in on the patterns that underlie the (de)legitimization of the crisis-ridden EU in three seminal speeches by PM Tsipras during the Greek/EU financial crisis. To this end, we integrate systemic-functional and cognitive linguistic tools with a view to scrutinizing representational meaning, before turning to employ the notions of endoxon and topos/locus as a means of studying the particular argumentative inferences, triggered by the respective discursive representations. Through this lens, we show how the overall argumentation can be seen as supporting the (de-)legitimation of dominant EU austerity perspectives while transforming SYRIZA into a pro-austerity voice.
KW - (de-)legitimation
KW - Argumentation theory
KW - Critical discourse studies (CDS)
KW - European Union
KW - Greek/EU financial crisis
KW - Populism
KW - SYRIZA/Tsipras
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127276295&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/jlp.21063.ser
DO - 10.1075/jlp.21063.ser
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85127276295
SN - 1569-2159
VL - 21
SP - 344
EP - 369
JO - Journal of Language and Politics
JF - Journal of Language and Politics
IS - 2
ER -