Αντιγλώσσα και κατασκευή συλλογικής ταυτότητας: Συνθήματα γκράφιτι της εξεγερσιακής συλλογικής δράσης του Δεκέμβρη του 2008

This paper examines the way that collective identity was discursively constructed during the youth unrest or protests of December 2008 in Greece. More specifically, we study the interrelation between macro-level (dominant) values and views, and micro-level individual positions as expressed in graffiti slogans, a type of discourse that appeared during the protests. The graffiti come from two albums and a personal photo collection. We employ the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, to scrutinize the transitivity structures of graffiti slogans at the micro-level, and draw on notions of insurrectionary collective action and collective identity as well as the notion of anti-language to frame the graffiti at the macro-level. Among our main findings is that the writers of graffiti slogans construct their collective identity on a two-fold oppositional axis: the first consists of the dominant institutions or “others”, which are negatively represented, while the second consists of a positively represented and inclusive in-group or “we”.