Dimitris Serafis holds a PhD (cotutelle) from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and the University of Neuchatel (2017), an MA in Political Science from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (2013) and a BA in Greek Philology (major in Linguistics) from the University of Patras (2010). His research interests lie at the intersection of Critical Discourse Studies, Social Semiotics and Multimodality, and Argumentation Studies, with his current focus being on topics such as migration, racism and hate speech, populism and authoritarianism, and (political and media) communication in times of crises. He has been published (among others) in journals such as Discourse & Communication, Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Language and Politics, Social Semiotics, Informal Logic, Text & Talk. His recent publications include the thematic section “Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication” (2021 – Studies in Communication Sciences; co-edited with Jolanta Drzewiecka & Sara Greco).
Selected Publications
- Serafis, D. (forthcoming/2022). Unveiling the rationale of soft hate speech in multimodal artifacts: A critical framework. Journal of Language and Discrimination.
- Salahshour, N., & Serafis, D. (in press/2022). (De-)Constructing New Zealand PM Jacinda Adern’s initiative to wear the hijab after the Christchurch terrorist attack: Critical perspectives on newspapers’ discourse and argumentation. Journal of Argumentation in Context.
- Boukala, S., & Serafis, D. (2022). A Facebook discourse-oriented ethnography of Greek Jewish heritage. In U. Flick (Ed.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research Design, 869-885. London: Sage.
- Boukala, S., & Serafis, D. (2022). Securitization, emergency and the rediscovery of responsibility in times of pandemic: Analyzing political discourses from the European South. In S. Oswald, M. Lewiński, S. Greco and S. Villata (Eds.), The Pandemic of Argumentation, 203-223. Cham: Springer.
- Serafis, D., Kitis, E. D., & Assimakopoulos, S. (2022). Sailing to Ithaka: The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union. Journal of Language and Politics 21 (2): 344-369.
- Serafis, D., Raimondo, C., Assimakopoulos, S., Greco, S., & Rocci, A. (2021) Argumentative dynamics in representations of migrants and refugees: Evidence from the Italian press during the ‘refugee crisis’. Discourse & Communication 15 (5): 559-581.
- Kitis, E. D., & Serafis, D. (2020). Legitimizing austerity in crisis-hit Greece: (Re-)articulating ‘social-democracy’ in political discourses of the socialist and left-populist parties. Journal of Language and Politics 19 (4): 691-711.
- Serafis, D., Greco, S., Pollaroli, C., & Jermini-Martinez Soria, C. (2020). Towards an integrated argumentative approach to multimodal critical discourse analysis: Evidence from the portrayal of refugees and immigrants in Greek newspapers. Critical Discourse Studies 17 (5): 545-565.
- Herman, T., & Serafis, D. (2019). Emotions, argumentation and argumentativity: Insights from an analysis of newspapers headlines in the context of the Greek crisis. Informal Logic 39 (4): 373-400.
- Serafis, D., Kitis, E. D., & Archakis, A. (2018). Graffiti Slogans and the construction of collective identity: Evidence from the anti-austerity protests in Greece. Text & Talk 38 (6): 775-797.
- Serafis, D., & Herman, T. (2018). Media discourse and pathos: Sketching a critical and integrationist approach – Greek and French headlines before the Greek referendum of 2015. Social Semiotics 28 (2): 184-200.
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