National priorities and environmental protection: The social construction of this relation by the newspapers

Abstract

In this paper, we study a national importance on Greece political action with intervention in the environment, (construction of part of Olympic Games project in the wetland of Shinias, in Athens, for the Olympic Games 2004), examines the moral attitudes and dilemmas that "covertly" can be construct and be promoted via the Greek Press for this particular issue, three years before the beginning of Olympic Games in Athens. With the help of the tool of Critical Discourse Analysis, were studied three ostensibly neutral linguistic choices in series of newspapers' articles. This qualitative-quantitative analysis elected two sovereign ideological dualisms that were promoted in the Greek Press for the issue of Shinias. © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2009.