How to Make People Feel Good When Wishing Hell: Golden Dawn and National Front Discourse, Emotions and Argumentation

Baider, Fabienne; Constantinou, Maria

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“…Avatars seem to intercommunicate and promote the ethos of a warrior who is afraid of nothing and is ready to fight against everything and everyone, to sacrifice themselves for the nation, or to kill the other in order to reconstitute their nation. Actually, such ideological stances of GD followers mirror the political and social agenda advocated by GD (Baider and Constantinou 2014). It is worth noting that the warrior ethos can be depicted using the plural (35, 37) or the singular (32,33,34,36).…”

Section: Strategies Of Disparagementmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This feature helps support the GD national identity and develop a nationalistic thinking against the Other. The concept of racial purity is then linked to the concept of dirt / cleanliness predominant in the discourse of GD (Papaioannou 201;Baider and Constantinou 2014). This strong need to reinforce Hellenic nationhood and to "cleanse up" the country conjured up over the long-lasting post 2008 crisis, when many nationalistic movements in Europe, for instance the French National Front grabbed the opportunity to develop and project their ethos of "Saviour" (Baider and Constantinou 2014: 206).…”

Section: Strategies Of Transformation: "Re-hellenization" Of the Natimentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Articles: To anchor the analysis of avatars, pseudonyms and texts, into their discursive, sociological and historical context, we took into account previous works related to the party itself (Baider and Constantinou 2014). These data comprise talks and interviews given by the leader and/or the deputies of the party (23 000) as well as written documents posted on the official website of GD (102.000 words).…”

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“…Germany is seen as the symbol of the EU and the origin of the austerity programme decided upon Greece by the Troika. 12 This explicit reference to the Nazi expression Untermenschen 'subhuman' is recurrent among the leadership as well(Baider and Constantinou 2014).Brought to you by | Nanyang Technological University Authenticated Download Date | 6/10/15 6:44 AM…”

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Language of Cyber-Politics: "Imaging/Imagining" Communities

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2014

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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Assuming that "YouTube provides a deindividuated interactional context where social identity, including ethnic identity, is salient" (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich et al. 2013, our emphasis), we focus our analysis on the online discussants' identity narratives (i.e. avatars, pseudonyms and comments) in order to investigate what makes each identity narrative into a cohesive specific ethos and how this ethos is coherent with the positioning of the party and their leaders. Our methodology includes qualitative analysis (avatars and pseudonyms) as well as a quantitative approach (comments vs leadership speeches). Our findings confirm that the emotions and ideologies salient in the leadership speeches and keywords are perpetuated, reinvented and re-enacted in avatars, pseudonyms and comments, constructing therefore a coherent virtual community. We also conclude that the ethos of this virtual community was built on the concept of resisting the loss of sovereignty (among other things to resist), symbolically co-constructed with myths, memories and a glorious past, instilling pride and unity, while cultivating anger, resentment and contempt against the "enemy".

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Section: Strategies Of Disparagementmentioning

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“…extremist and nationalistic discourse). An appeal to the sentiments of the target audience is a strategy typically pursued for polarisation and recruitment purposes, and it commonly seeks to invoke a sense of ingroup attachment and victimhood, and a sense of inferiority, culpability, and difference of the 'other' (Baider and Constantinou 2014). The Affect variable score reflects the level of emotional language employed.…”

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Extreme parallels: a corpus-driven analysis of ISIS and far-right discourse

Buckingham

Alali

2019

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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In this study, we examine key psychological dimensions in the manifestos authored by the perpetrators of the Christchurch and Utøya massacres, the right-wing extremists Brenton Tarrant and Anders Breivik, and the ISIS propaganda magazine Rumiyah. All texts were authored and disseminated virtually with the purpose of attracting or consolidating support, and justifying violent, discriminatory actions. While right-wing supremacist and extremist Islamist discourses are ostensibly ideologically opposed, previous research has posited the existence of ideational and emotive commonalities. We approach this from a corpus-linguistic perspective, and employ the software LIWC2015 and Wmatrix to explore the dominant psychological dimensions, semantic categories and keywords in these texts. We identify elements that contribute to the construction of a narrative of hate, peril and urgency, and discuss differences in the imagery used to construct these meanings and to appeal to different audiences. Whilst our analysis supports the existence of commonalities in ideological content and discursive strategies, our results identify differences in the target of hate in right-wing supremacist discourse and we differentiate between primarily Islamophobic and racist motives. Finally, we also discuss the limitations inherent in employing these software tools to analyse discourse in the Web 2.0 era.

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Researching political metaphor cross-culturally: English, Hungarian, Greek and Turkish L1-based interpretations of the Nation as Body metaphor

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2021

Journal of Pragmatics

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How to Make People Feel Good When Wishing Hell: Golden Dawn and National Front Discourse, Emotions and Argumentation

Cited by 18 publications

References 46 publications

Language of Cyber-Politics: "Imaging/Imagining" Communities

Language of Cyber-Politics: "Imaging/Imagining" Communities

Extreme parallels: a corpus-driven analysis of ISIS and far-right discourse

Researching political metaphor cross-culturally: English, Hungarian, Greek and Turkish L1-based interpretations of the Nation as Body metaphor

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