The following research has as its object the political language used in the rhetoric of the far-right political party Hrisi Avgi (Golden Dawn) – the subject within the Greek political space, which stands out with its lean towards neonazism. The publicly demonstrated (not only) verbal aggression stands as a fundamental scar of hate speech, which is clearly used in political slogans, political expression and speeches as well as other instances all of which are the object of this research. The conclusion to which one reaches is that, through the conscious use of hate speech, radical nationalism has reached its peak and has resulted in starting serious conflicts especially on the basis of politics, faith, race and ethnicity. The misuse of harmful lexical and semantic units reaches the threshold of tolerance amongst the public space. Like this Hrisi Avgi suffer their downfall and are removed from the Greek parliament.
Key words: rhetoric, Hrisi Avgi, neonazism, hate speech, conflicts, Greek parliament.
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