ABSTRACT
Following the Greek bailout in 2010 and the enforcement of strict austerity policies, different discourses of crisis and representations of Greece appeared in the European and international press which were used to (de)legitimize the politics of austerity. Based on the premise that the crisis is discursively construed and reproduced through the media, this study explores a corpus of articles from two British political magazines on debt crisis and the future of Greece. It particularly draws on the tradition of critical discourse analysis which it combines with corpus linguistics tools in order to explore the ways the Greek case was communicated in public discourses of different political orientation and to investigate changes in discourses and representations during different phases of the crisis.
