Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the discursive power behind them. The chapters examine a range of contemporary and historical, monomodal and multimodal discourses, including politicians’ discourse, presidential speeches, newspapers, TV series, Catholic homilies, colonialist discourse, and various online sources. The approaches taken include political science, international relations, cultural studies, and linguistics. All contributions feature discursive constructivist views of metaphor, with clear sociocultural grounding, and the notion of metaphor as a framing device in constructing various aspects of nations and national identity. The volume will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, metaphor studies, media studies, nationalism studies, and political science.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 82] 2019. vii, 356 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
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Metaphors in the discursive construction of nationsMateusz-Milan Stanojević and Ljiljana Šarić | pp. 1–32
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Part I. Discourses and voices of the powerful elites
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Chapter 1. The desire for shelter: Nation- and state-building and the metaphorical discourse of fragile and collapsed statesMichael P. Marks | pp. 33–58
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Chapter 2. Barbed wire around Serbia: Migrant metaphors as a means of constructing national identityTatjana Đurović and Nadežda Silaški | pp. 59–74
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Chapter 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe: Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004Aleksander Gomola | pp. 75–100
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Chapter 4. “Let’s work on our Serbian!”: Standard language ideology, metaphors and discourses about Serbian national identity in the newspaper Politika in 2015Stijn Vervaet | pp. 101–126
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Chapter 5. Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identityVišnja Čičin-Šain | pp. 127–154
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Chapter 6. Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871–1914)Felicity Rash | pp. 155–176
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Chapter 7. The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors: German Heimat and Russian MotherlandAgne Cepinskyte | pp. 177–200
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Chapter 8. “The state of our Union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addressesMassimiliano Demata | pp. 201–224
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Part II. Semi-official and mixed discourses
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Chapter 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation: An emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructionsBenedikt Perak | pp. 225–258
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Chapter 10. Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourseMateusz-Milan Stanojević | pp. 259–286
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Chapter 11. How to do things with metaphors: The prison of nations metaphorLjiljana Šarić | pp. 287–320
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Chapter 12. Guidelines on how to construct a nation: Metaphors in the first episode of the Catalan series Gran NordSilvia Grassi | pp. 321–346
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Afterword: Nations need (new?) metaphorsAndreas Musolff | pp. 347–348
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Notes on contributors | pp. 349–351
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Index
“The twelve chapters in the current volume provide a rich and varied palette of critical-cultural discourse analysis on the intersection between metaphor and nations.”
Christian Burgers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Amsterdam, in Journal of Pragmatics 158 (2020)
“Die interdisziplinäre Herangehensweise mit einer Mischung aus Politikwissenschaft, internationalen Beziehungen, Kulturstudien und Linguistik erlaubt den Lesenden einen kritischen und umfassenden Einblick, der sich dabei doch immer wieder auf den konstruktivistischen Diskurs der Metaphern sowie auch soziokulturell begründet. Ferner finden sich auch die Frametheorie in einigen der Untersuchungen sowie eine Reihe an quantitativen und qualitativen Evaluationen von Korpora. Mit der Ansprache an Forschende auf verschiedenen Ebenen und der Analyse der Länderspezifika, beispielsweise Kroatiens und Serbiens, abseits der einschlägigen Beispiele, erfüllt dieser Band eine wichtige Funktion, die Studierende, aber auch etablierte Forschende anspricht.”
Michaela Rusch, Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, in Fachsprache June 2020
“Every chapter of this edited volume provides strong arguments for broadening CMT by including both the diachronic perspective (in Musolff ’s words, metaphors are historically situated) and the discursive context as a whole. While the strength of some chapters is in their content-based approach, relevant for many researchers beyond linguistics, some other chapters display a significant amount of initiative towards enriching theoretical and methodological approaches to metaphor and metonymies. They all interact with the reader in a very dynamic way and stimulate further research questions.”
Aleksandra Salamurović, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in Journal of Language and Politics 20:3 (2021)
“This edited volume will undoubtedly be of great interest to all metaphor scholars working on (political) discourse as it connects to current trends within the field of metaphor studies and opens up avenues for future research in linguistics and political science.”
Julien Perrez, University of Liège, in Metaphor and the Social World, Volume 11:1 (2021).
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics