Women in the Greek Political Community and Sexism in Greek Political Discourse
摘要
DiscoursePolitical discourse addressed to women politicians highlights instances of language abuseAbuse/ive and the fact that, despite analysis and documentation of the phenomenon within 2nd and 3rd wave feminist linguisticsFeminist linguistics, sexismSexism/ist in political rhetoricRhetoric remains a social reality that calls for scrutiny. Within an critical interactionalInteractioninteractional approach to genderedFace face-politicsFace-politics the main question to be asked is how within political communication in general and in Greek political communication in particular women who deviate from normalized feminine stereotypes are discursively castigated and disciplined by means of overt or covert sexistSexism/ist attacks to their faceFace (Georgalidou, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:30–57, 2017). What is more, we examine the role of traditional and new media in further normalizing the phenomenon via reproducing it in the contextContext of “confrontainmentConfrontainment” (Garces-Conejos Blitvich in Globalization, transactional identities and conflict talk: the complexity of the Latino identity, 2015) as well as by offering commenting space for further sexistSexism/ist verbal abuseAbuse/ive.