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Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 82] 2019
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Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Nation, discourse, metaphor and their intersections
    • 2.1Are nations imagined or real, and what are they made of?
    • 2.2Discourses, nations and the construction of reality
    • 2.3Nations as constructed complexes: Banal nationalismand nation-building
    • 2.4From conceptual to discursive metaphors
  • 3.What and how do metaphors frame in nation construction?
    • 3.1Nations as families
      • 3.1.1Nations as families in scholarly discourse
      • 3.1.2Nations as families in public discourse
    • 3.2Nations as human bodies
    • 3.3Nations as bodies, persons, containers: metaphor interactions and legitimization
    • 3.4What metaphors highlight and hide
  • 4.Metaphors framingnation discourses through emotions: Overview of the chapters
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 20 May 2019
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