Višnja Čičin-Šain
List of John Benjamins publications for which Višnja Čičin-Šain plays a role.
Articles
2023 Metaphors and pseudometaphors of language as controversial messages in public discourse about Serbian: By reading or fighting? Metaphors and pseudometaphors of language as conflict-inciting messages Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1, pp. 117–145 | Article
Set in the contemporary public discourse about the Serbian language, this paper demonstrates how metaphors of and about language constructed with the source domains of violence and war (e.g., language occupation, language as battlefield, to fight for language) may serve nationalistic political… read more
2019 Chapter 5. Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identity Metaphor, Nation and Discourse, Šarić, Ljiljana and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (eds.), pp. 127–154 | Chapter
This chapter analyses the discursive construction of Croatian language identity and demonstrates that figurative language plays a crucial role in the process of national and linguistic (dis)identification. The ideological nature and complexity of nations and languages make both concepts highly… read more