Table of contents
Acknowledgments
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Metaphors in the discursive constr uction of nations
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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
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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 2015
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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)
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Chapter 7.The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors: German Heimat and Russian Motherland
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Chapter 8.“The state of our union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses
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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
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Chapter 10.Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse: Media vs. migrant perspectives
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Chapter 11.How to do things with metaphors: The prison of nations metaphor in South Slavic online sources
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Chapter 12.Guidelines on how to construct a nation: Metaphors in the first episode of the Catalan series Gran Nord
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Afterword: Nations need (new?) metaphors
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Notes on contributors
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Index
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