Chapter 2
Barbed wire around Serbia
Migrant metaphors as a means of constructing national identity
Using a theoretical framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris-Black 2004; Musolff 2004, 2006) and Critical Discourse Analysis (Hart 2010; Hart & Cap 2014; Šarić et al. 2010) the chapter investigates the role of metaphors in the construction of the national, viewed here through the prism of migrant discourse, and how this reflects on Serbia’s EU accession process. We analyse a data collection compiled from texts published in Serbian print and electronic news media in 2015–2016, focusing on verbal instantiations of the containment image schema and the wall metaphor scenario to show how Serbian officials exploit metaphors in order to present the migrant crisis as a new obstacle to Serbia’s becoming part of the EU inner space.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical framework
- 3.Data and methodology
- 4.Results
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
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Acknowledgement
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