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Title Metaphor, nation and discourse / edited by Ljiljana Šaric, Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 356 pages)
Series Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 ; Volume 82
Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 82.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations / Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic & Ljiljana Šaric -- Part I. Discourses and voices of the powerful elites: 1. The desire for shelter: Nation- and state-building and the metaphorical discourse of fragile and collapsed states / Michael P. Marks -- 2. Barbed wire around Serbia: Migrant metaphors as a means of constructing national identity / Tatjana Đurović & Nadežda Silaški -- 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe: Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004 / Aleksander Gomola -- 4. 'Let's work on our Serbian!': Standard language ideology, metaphors and discourses about Serbian national identity in the newspaper Politika in 2015 / Stijn Vervaet -- 5. Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identity / Višnja Čičin-Šain -- 6. Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871-1914) / Felicity Rash -- 7. The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors: German Heimat and Russian Motherland / Agne Cepinskyte -- 8. 'The state of our union is strong' Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses / Massimiliano Demata -- Part II. Semi-official and mixed discourses: 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation: An emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions / Benedikt Perak -- 10. Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse / Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic -- 11. How to do things with metaphors: The prison of nations metaphor in South Slavic online sources / Ljiljana Šaric -- 12. Guidelines on how to construct a nation: Metaphors in the first episode of the Catalan series Gran Nord / Silvia Grassi -- Afterword: Nations need (new?) metaphors / Andreas Musolff -- Notes on contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2020)
Subject Metaphor -- Political aspects
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Metaphor -- Political aspects
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Šaric, Ljiljana, editor
Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan, 1975- editor.
LC no. 2019013696
ISBN 9027262675
9789027262677