Metaphor, Nation and Discourse.

Intro -- 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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