Contemporary and historical discourses
The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the discursive power behind them. The chapters examine a range of contemporary and historical discourses, including politicians’ discourse, presidential speeches, newspapers, TV series, Catholic homilies, colonialist discourse, and various online sources. The approaches taken include political science, international relations, cultural studies, and linguistics.
Metaphor as a framing device
All contributions – including Stijn Vervaet's “Let’s Work on our Serbian!” and Visnja Cicin-Sain's "Metaphors for language contact and change" – feature discursive constructivist views of metaphor, with clear sociocultural grounding, and the notion of metaphor as a framing device in constructing various aspects of nations and national identity.
The volume, edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević, will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, metaphor studies, media studies, nationalism studies, and political science.