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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
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Table of contents

Acknowledgments vii
Metaphors in the discursive constr uction of nations 1
Part I.Discourses and voices of the powerful elites
Chapter 1.The desire for shelter: Nation- and state-building and the metaphorical discourse of fragile and collapsed states 35
Chapter 2.Barbed wire around Serbia: Migrant metaphors as a means of constructing national identity 59
Chapter 3.Godly Poland in godless Europe: Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004 75
Chapter 4.“Let’s work on our Serbian!”: Standard language ideology, metaphors and discourses about Serbian national identity in the newspaper Politika in 2015 101
Chapter 5.Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identity 127
Chapter 6.Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871–1914) 155
Chapter 7.The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors: German Heimat and Russian Motherland 177
Chapter 8.“The state of our union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses 201
Part II.Semi-official and mixed discourses
Chapter 9.The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation: An emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions 227
Chapter 10.Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse: Media vs. migrant perspectives 259
Chapter 11.How to do things with metaphors: The prison of nations metaphor in South Slavic online sources 287
Chapter 12.Guidelines on how to construct a nation: Metaphors in the first episode of the Catalan series Gran Nord 321
Afterword: Nations need (new?) metaphors 347
Notes on contributors 349
Index 353


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