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Metaphor, nation and discourse / edited by Ljiljana Šaric, Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic. — 1 online resource. — (Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2117310.pdf>.

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Subject: Metaphor — Political aspects.; Discourse analysis — Political aspects.; Rhetoric — Political aspects.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills

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Table of Contents

  • Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Nation, discourse, metaphor and their intersections
      • 2.1 Are nations imagined or real, and what are they made of?
      • 2.2 Discourses, nations and the construction of reality
      • 2.3 Nations as constructed complexes: Banal nationalism and nation-building
      • 2.4 From conceptual to discursive metaphors
    • 3. What and how do metaphors frame in nation construction?
      • 3.1 Nations as families
        • 3.1.1 Nations as families in scholarly discourse
        • 3.1.2 Nations as families in public discourse
      • 3.2 Nations as human bodies
      • 3.3 Nations as bodies, persons, containers: Metaphor interactions and legitimization
      • 3.4 What metaphors highlight and hide
    • 4. Metaphors framing nation discourses through emotions: Overview of the chapters
    • References
  • Part I. Discourses and voices of the powerful elites
    • 1. The desire for shelter
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical considerations
      • 3. Conceptual metaphors, state insecurity and the desire for shelter
        • 3.1 Fragile and collapsed states
        • 3.2 Nation- and state-“building”
        • 3.3 Nation- and state-building as a solution to “fragile” and “collapsed” states
        • 3.4 Is “peace-building” the answer?
      • 4. Conclusion: The desire for shelter – metaphorical and literal
      • References
    • 2. Barbed wire around Serbia
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical framework
      • 3. Data and methodology
      • 4. Results
      • 5. Discussion
      • 6. Conclusion
      • Acknowledgement
      • References
    • 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical and methodological remarks
        • 2.1 Conceptual metaphors for nations
        • 2.2 The Discourse Historical Approach: Levels of discourse, macro-strategies, topoi/fallacies, means of realization
        • 2.3 Catholic-nationalist discourse as political discourse
      • 3. Major features of the Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland
        • 3.1 Homily as the main genre of Catholic-nationalist discourse: The social level of the discourse
        • 3.2 The Catholic media: The intertextual level of the discourse
        • 3.3 The concept of Poland as chosen nation: the historical level of the discourse
      • 4. The poland is a person conceptual metaphor in Catholic-nationalist discourse: An analysis of the textual level of the discourse
        • 4.1 Essentialist understanding, moral agency, and the inner “self” of the Polish nation
        • 4.2 poland is a defender of the faith
        • 4.3 poland is a missionary for europe
        • 4.4 poland is a defender of europe attacked by islam
        • 4.5 Interpretation of the Smoleńsk plane crash in Catholic-nationalist discourse
      • 5. Conclusion
      • References
        • Primary sources
        • Secondary sources
    • 4. “Let’s work on our Serbian!”
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. “Let’s work on our Serbian”: The campaign and its reception and relationship to the ideology of the standard language in Serbia
      • 3. What’s in a metaphor?: The “complaint tradition” remixed
      • 4. Language as the organic expression of the nation’s character
      • 5. Language and territory: The ideological implications of metonymy
      • 6. Conclusion
      • Acknowledgement
      • References
        • Primary sources
        • Secondary sources
    • 5. Metaphors for language contact and change
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical background
        • 2.1 Language – constructing and delineating nations
        • 2.2 Croatian extra-linguistic context
        • 2.3 Discourse, metaphor, blending, and scenarios
      • 3. Method and data
      • 4. Analysis
        • 4.1 Undesirable elements taint and corrupt language
        • 4.2 The nation is affected by linguistic changes
        • 4.3 Language requires purification
        • 4.4 Language needs protection
      • 5. Construction of identity through discourse and implications of metaphorical language for language users
      • 6. Conclusion
      • References
        • Primary sources
        • Secondary sources
    • 6. Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871–1914)
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical framework
      • 3. Analysis
        • 3.1 Colonization as cultivation
          • 3.1.1 Metaphor histories
          • 3.1.2 Metaphors of cultivation in German colonialist discourse after 1871
        • 3.2 Colonization as flowing
          • 3.2.1 Metaphor histories
          • 3.2.2 Metaphors of flowing in German colonialist discourse after 1871
      • 4. Conclusion
      • References
        • Primary sources
        • Secondary sources
    • 7. The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Imagining a state in symbols and metaphors
      • 3. The Heimat symbol: From individual memory of home to collective memory of homeland
      • 4. The Motherland metaphor: Consolidating the vertical state authority
      • 5. Conclusion
      • References
        • Primary sources
        • Secondary sources
      • Appendix 1. German Foreign Calendar (1928)
    • 8. “The state of our union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical background
        • 2.1 The SOTU address and genre
        • 2.2 Nation and metaphor
      • 3. Metaphors of the nation in Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump
        • 3.1 Methodology
        • 3.2 Build
        • 3.3 America, nation, our country
      • 4. Conclusions
      • References
  • Part II. Semi-official and mixed discourses
    • 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation
      • 1. Introduction and approaches
      • 2. What kind of entity is the nation?
        • 2.1 The emergent constructivist approach to the ontology of the nation
        • 2.2 Emergent ontological description as an iterative function of meronomy and classification
        • 2.3 Cultural models of the nation
        • 2.4 The diachronic aspect of the componential analysis
        • 2.5 Language as a tool of conceptual construal
      • 3. Analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions
        • 3.1 Syntactic-semantic constructions and construal of meaning
        • 3.2 Noun collocates of the coordinated construction
        • 3.3 Adjective collocates of the adjective modifier construction
        • 3.4 Noun collocates of the dependent genitive construction
        • 3.5 Verb collocates of the thematic object construction
        • 3.6 Verb collocates of the agentive subject construction
      • 4. Ontological congruence analysis of categorization, metonymy, and metaphor
        • 4.1 Cognitive profiling of meronomic relations in syntactic-semantic constructions
          • 4.1.1 Meronymy in the adjective modifier construction
          • 4.1.2 Meronymy in the genitive construction
        • 4.1.3 Meronymy in the thematic object construction
          • 4.1.4 Meronymy in the agentive subject construction
        • 4.2 Metaphor as incongruent profiling of extended meronomic relations
        • 4.3 Pragmatic relevance of metaphors in discourse
      • 5. Conclusion
      • Acknowledgment
      • References
    • 10. Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Conceptual and discursive approaches to metaphor and their methodologies
        • 2.1 The rationale for the methodology used in this study
        • 2.2 The nation and its metaphors
      • 3. The procedure used in this study
      • 4. Results
        • 4.1 Aspects of meaning
        • 4.2 Potentially metaphorical expressions and their groups
        • 4.3 Grammatical characteristics
        • 4.4 Lexical schematicity
        • 4.5 Discourse-based perspective
          • 4.5.1 Discourse clusters and potentially metaphorical expressions
          • 4.5.2 Legitimization and delegitimization in the forum
      • 5. Discussion and conclusion: Where does the metaphoricity of nacija lie?
      • References
    • 11. How to do things with metaphors
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical background
      • 3. The metaphor’s origin and discourse history
      • 4. The dungeon of nations in the Croatian Web Corpus hrWaC
        • 4.1 The frequency of the metaphor and its distribution across genres in hrWaC
        • 4.2 The metaphor’s target domains and context types
        • 4.3 Findings from hrWaC in a broader context
      • 5. Some specific features of the metaphor’s use
      • 6. The functions of the prison of nations metaphor
      • 7. The dungeon of nations as a strategically-used evaluative metaphor in nation-building: Discussion and conclusion
      • Acknowledgement
      • References
      • Online sources
        • Corpus
        • Dictionaries
        • Encyclopaedias
        • Newspaper articles
        • Websites
        • Forum posts
        • Forum threads
    • 12. Guidelines on how to construct a nation
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Cultural context: Catalan public broadcasting service and its role as “national media”
      • 3. Conceptual metaphors and audiovisual metaphors
      • 4. Gran Nord: Audiovisual metaphors and their ideological role in the narrative
      • 5. Anna’s conflictive identity as an allegory for the dialectics between (national) identities in Catalonia
      • 6. Conclusions
      • Acknowledgment
      • References
  • Afterword. Nations need (new?) metaphors
    • References
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index

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