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Rethinking Athens as Text : The Linguistic Context of Athenian Graffiti during the Crisis

Stampoulidis, Georgios LU orcid (2016) Sprogvidenskabelige Studenterkonference In Journal of Language Works - Sprogvidenskabeligt Studentertidsskrift 1. p.10-23
Abstract
The Athenian graffiti functions as a testament of creativity and artistry occurring during the hard times of socioeconomic and political crisis in Greece the last seven years. The impact of Greece's crisis is unavoidably presented through urban art in downtown Athens. This extensive street art practice on Athenian walls as a linguistic and imagery line is approached in this work via the semiotic and multimodal perspective, as the main symbolic and representative expression generated by the crisis, contributing to the production of visual urban culture. Fieldwork research was conducted in Athens from January to July 2015. The findings of the qualitative analysis highlight that politicized wall writings constitute a modern wall language,... (More)
The Athenian graffiti functions as a testament of creativity and artistry occurring during the hard times of socioeconomic and political crisis in Greece the last seven years. The impact of Greece's crisis is unavoidably presented through urban art in downtown Athens. This extensive street art practice on Athenian walls as a linguistic and imagery line is approached in this work via the semiotic and multimodal perspective, as the main symbolic and representative expression generated by the crisis, contributing to the production of visual urban culture. Fieldwork research was conducted in Athens from January to July 2015. The findings of the qualitative analysis highlight that politicized wall writings constitute a modern wall language, expressing social and political messages produced mainly via text and image, reconstructing the wall slogans and murals as the fundamental means of sociopolitical reaction. (Less)
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Athenian Graffiti, Crisis, Semiotics, Multimodality
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Journal of Language Works - Sprogvidenskabeligt Studentertidsskrift
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1
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14 pages
publisher
Copenhagen University
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Sprogvidenskabelige Studenterkonference
conference location
Copenhagen, Denmark
conference dates
2015-11-06 - 2015-11-06
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2446-0591
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Hope Wanted: Wall Writing Protests in Times of Economic Crisis in Athens
language
English
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yes
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Stewart, J. (2009). Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s. The Oxford English Dictionary Online, Oxford University Press, 2005; (www.oed.com retrieved 2015/03/11). Tsarouhas, D. (2005). Explaining an Activist Military: Greece until 1975. Southeast European Politics VI, no. 1, pp.1-13. Tulke, J. (2014). Aesthetics of Crisis. Street Art, Austerity Urbanism and the Right to the City. Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/7746246/Aesthetics_of_Crisis._Street_Art_Austerity_Urbanism_and_th e_Right_to_the_City (last access: 2016.03.30). Wodak, R. and Meyer, M. (2008). Critical Discourse Analysis: History, Agenda, Theory, and Methodology, pp. 1-33.
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  author       = {{Stampoulidis, Georgios}},
  issn         = {{2446-0591}},
  keywords     = {{Athenian Graffiti; Crisis; Semiotics; Multimodality}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{06}},
  pages        = {{10--23}},
  publisher    = {{Copenhagen University}},
  series       = {{Journal of Language Works - Sprogvidenskabeligt Studentertidsskrift}},
  title        = {{Rethinking Athens as Text : The Linguistic Context of Athenian Graffiti during the Crisis}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/12158814/Rethinking_Athens_as_Text_The_Linguistic.pdf}},
  volume       = {{1}},
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