Višnja Čičin-Šain

List of John Benjamins publications for which Višnja Čičin-Šain plays a role.

Articles

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
Čičin-Šain, Višnja 2019 Chapter 5. Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identityMetaphor, 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