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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793418003321

Titolo

Metaphor, nation and discourse / / edited by Ljiljana Šaric, Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-272-6267-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 pages)

Disciplina

808.032

Soggetti

Metaphor - Political aspects

Discourse analysis - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations / Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic & Ljiljana Šaric -- Part I. Discourses and voices of the powerful elites: 1. The desire for shelter: Nation- and state-building and the metaphorical discourse of fragile and collapsed states / Michael P. Marks -- 2. Barbed wire around Serbia: Migrant metaphors as a means of constructing national identity / Tatjana Đurović & Nadežda Silaški -- 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe: Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004 / Aleksander Gomola -- 4. 'Let's work on our Serbian!': Standard language ideology, metaphors and discourses about Serbian national identity in the newspaper Politika in 2015 / Stijn Vervaet -- 5. Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identity / Višnja Čičin-Šain -- 6. Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871-1914) / Felicity Rash -- 7. The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors: German Heimat and Russian Motherland / Agne Cepinskyte -- 8. 'The state of our union is strong' Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses / Massimiliano Demata -- Part II. Semi-official and mixed discourses: 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation: An emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions / Benedikt Perak -- 10. Metaphorical



and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse / Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic -- 11. How to do things with metaphors: The prison of nations metaphor in South Slavic online sources / Ljiljana Šaric -- 12. Guidelines on how to construct a nation: Metaphors in the first episode of the Catalan series Gran Nord / Silvia Grassi -- Afterword: Nations need (new?) metaphors / Andreas Musolff -- Notes on contributors.