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Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 82] 2019
► pp. 59–74

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.
Keywords: metaphor, metaphor scenario, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Metaphor Analysis, migrant crisis, eu, Serbia, wall metaphor, containment image schema
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical framework
  • 3.Data and methodology
  • 4.Results
  • 5.Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
Published online: 20 May 2019
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