Unit:
Κατεύθυνση ΓλωσσολογίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Porfyri Aikaterini-Maria
Supervisors info:
Διονύσιος Γούτσος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Σπυριδούλα Μπέλλα, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Ελένη Παναρέτου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η δίκη της Χρυσής Αυγής: Ανάλυση λόγου αστυνομικής κατάθεσης σε σχέση με σχόλια στο Twitter
Translated title:
Golden Dawn trial: Discourse analysis on a police officer's deposition in relation with Twitter comments
Summary:
The term «Golden Dawn trial» is used to refer to the judicial process that started in April 2015, during which MPs and members of the Golden Dawn party are accused of forming a criminal organization. Even though the trial process is not covered by traditional media, due to the great interest of the public, transcripts are posted in real time through web 2.0 platforms and are then circulated and commented on by social media users.
In this paper we examine the deposition of the police officer in charge the night that Pavlos Fyssas got murdered, along with comments related to the trial that have been posted on Twitter. The deposition is examined through the scope of evidentiality and the Twitter comments through the theories of humor and irony.
The deposition’s study finds a witness’s tendency to distance himself from the knowledge expressed regarding Golden Dawn and some of the events from the night of Fyssas’s murder as well as inconsistencies on the event’s description and the following police actions. On the same time the study presents new aspects of the relation between evidentiality and epistemic modality and explores the way that evidentials emerge from relevance and implicatures in a conversation.
The study on Twitter comments shows that users express their negative stance on the witness, which they find untrustworthy, Golden Dawn and Police in general though humor and irony. We notice that users recontextualize certain trial excerpts connecting the deposition with the historical and cultural context.
Thus we present the way in which the «Golden Dawn trial» becomes a part of the Greek crisis discourse.
Main subject category:
Linguistics
Keywords:
discourse analysis, evidentiality, humor, irony, Twitter, hashtag, Golden Dawn, trial, police
