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Metaphor, Nation and DiscourseEdited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 82] 2019
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Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 82] 2019
► pp. 1–32
Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Nation, discourse, metaphor and their intersections
- 2.1Are nations imagined or real, and what are they made of?
- 2.2Discourses, nations and the construction of reality
- 2.3Nations as constructed complexes: and
- 2.4From conceptual to discursive metaphors
- 3.What and how do metaphors frame in nation construction?
- 3.1
- 3.1.1 in scholarly discourse
- 3.1.2 in public discourse
- 3.2Nations as human bodies
- 3.3, persons, : metaphor interactions and
- 3.4What metaphors highlight and hide
- 3.1
- 4.Metaphors nation discourses through : Overview of the chapters
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Notes -
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