The 2008 economic crisis signalled a new era for European and global politics and introduced a new ‘economic crisis discourse’, which has emerged as an attempt to explain, justify, criticize and interpret economic crisis. It has introduced new terms and constructed new meanings to political life. Media economic crisis discourse has been a decisive factor in peoples’ understanding of economic crisis. The paper studies the construction and media narratives of economic crisis discourse through an analysis of articles published by The Economist during the ‘peak years’ of the early Greek economic crisis (2009–2011). The analysis follows Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) discourse theory and reveals the ‘nodal points’ of Greek crisis discourse as they are presented in the articles of The Economist. The paper underlines the importance of media discourse during crisis periods, in which information dissemination and news framing may crucially affect citizens, policies and societies in general.

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经济危机与希腊危机话语

2008 年的经济危机标志着欧洲和全球政治进入了一个新时代，并引入了一种新的“经济危机话语”，它试图解释、证明、批评和解释经济危机。它为政治生活引入了新的术语并构建了新的含义。媒体经济危机话语一直是人们对经济危机认识的决定性因素。本文通过分析《经济学人》在早期希腊经济危机（2009-2011 年）的“高峰年”期间发表的文章，研究了经济危机话语的构建和媒体叙事。该分析遵循 Laclau 和 Mouffe (1985) 的话语理论，并揭示了《经济学人》文章中提出的希腊危机话语的“节点”。