TY - JOUR
TI - Identity as space: Localism in the Greek protests of Syntagma Square
AU - Goutsos, D.
AU - Polymeneas, G.
JO - Journal of Language and Politics
PY - 2014
VL - 13
TODO - 4
SP - 675-701
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
SN - 1569-2159, 1569-9862
TODO - 10.1075/jlp.13.4.05gou
TODO - null
TODO - 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 sources, including the General Assembly proceedings and resolutions, while a linguistically-informed approach is followed, which combines Critical Discourse Analysis concepts with corpus linguistic methods. It is argued that the Syntagma protests generated a new context in Greek politics, by introducing new genres and the innovative articulation of already existing discourses. It was also found that social/political identities and social/public space were co-articulated, since the identity of the movement was crucially constructed in terms of space. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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