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A Facebook Discourse-oriented Ethnography of Greek Jewish Heritage
Author(s): Boukala, Salomi; Serafis, Dimitris
Editor(s): Flick, Uwe
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Social Media, Internet, Ethnography
Subtle hate speech and the recontextualisation of antisemitism online: Analysing argumentation on Facebook
Author(s): Serafis, Dimitris; Boukala, Salomi
Editor(s): Esposito, Eleonora; KhosraviNik, Majid
Date: 2023
Topics: Antisemitism: Discourse, Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals, Social Media, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: This chapter presents the online debate on two highly ambiguous political cartoons that were published by the Greek left-wing newspaper I Efimerída ton Syntaktón (EfSyn) and aimed to criticise a series of public policies proposed by the conservative New Democracy party. The employment of the Holocaust in these cartoons was discursively constructed as a (re)production of antisemitism by members of Facebook groups and pages of the Jewish community, who are actively engaged in countering this form of discrimination. Against this backdrop, this chapter focuses on the examination of Facebook posts and comments against what has been perceived as antisemitic hatred. Principles and tools from the discourse-historical approach (DHA) and the argumentum model of topics (AMT) are employed, aiming to provide insights on the socio-historical context in which commonly accepted contextual premises (endoxa) may be established, before being challenged via the relevant argumentative schemes (topoi) in dialectical syllogisms. In doing so, the chapter intends to sharpen the analytical armoury of Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS) by offering an in-depth investigation of the following interrelated levels: the socio-historical vertical (macro-)level as this is encoded or opposed in the (micro-)level of communicative content.
Protocols of political forgiveness: forgetting and forgiving antisemitism in Greek right-wing politics
Author(s): Boukala, Salomi
Editor(s): Cap, Piotr
Date: 2023
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Politics
Abstract: This chapter examines forgiveness as a political communication concept and strategy in the domain of race and discrimination discourse. Specifically, it focuses on the act of apology as a means to re-establish the image of a political liberal while being known for previous discriminatory declarations and practices. Following the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Studies, it studies statements of apology by three Greek ministers, made in response to accusations of their past antisemitic mindset. The analysis draws on the synthesis of the Aristotelian rhetoric and the DHA theory of argumentation schemes, identifying different kinds of topoi and other argumentative devices in the texts and pointing to their general function in the apology and forgiveness discourse. From a sociopolitical standpoint, the chapter paints a comprehensive picture of antisemitism in contemporary Greece, tracing its roots to the rapid growth of the extreme right and the role political forgiveness has played in the process.