Ljiljana Saric

• Saric, Ljiljana & Alvestad, Silje Susanne (2024). Slavonic noun phrases , The Oxford Guide to the Slavonic Languages. Oxford University Press. ISSN 000-00-000-0000-0.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2023). METAPHORS FOR OČAJ ‘DESPAIR’ IN CROATIAN: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY. Croatica et Slavica Iadertina. ISSN 1845-6839. 19(2), s. 479–511. doi: 10.15291/csi.4323. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This study examines the role of metaphor in the conceptualization of očaj ‘despair’ based on the Croatian corpus hrWaC. The study also considers some non-figurative aspects. Employing “metaphorical pattern analysis” (Stefanowitsch 2006) and MIP (Pragglejaz Group 2007) methods, the paper scrutinizes corpus examples that contain the target-domain word očaj ‘despair’, looking for metaphorical patterns. These patterns were extracted from a random sample of 1,000 citations and additional corpus citations that were retrieved based on a list of collocation candidates. The analysis shows that the metaphorical conceptualization of očaj ‘despair’ in Croatian in the data examined relates to approximately forty source domains, out of which the most frequently utilized is CONTAINER, followed by OBJECT. The source domains identified in the conceptualization of očaj illustrate similarities between the metaphors for očaj in Croatian and those identified for sadness and depression in various languages, and point toward universal features of metaphorical conceptualization of some emotions and emotional states.

• Saric, Ljiljana (2023). Croatian Blends from Personal Names. I Bartels, Hauke; Menzel, Thomas & Zeller, Jan-Patrick (Red.), Einheit(en) in der Vielfalt von Slavistik und Osteuropakunde. Prvdentia Regnorvm Fvndamentvm. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631889886. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Saric, Ljiljana; Borza, Natalia; Koller, Veronika; Demata, Massimiliano & Filardo-Llamas, Laura (2023). Voices of supporters for populist parties across Europe, Voices of Supporters Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027213884. s. 279–293. Vis sammendrag

  This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

• Saric, Ljiljana; Koller, Veronika; Borza, Natalia; Demata, Massimiliano & Filardo-Llamas, Laura (2023). Populism and populism studies: Theories and contributions, Voices of Supporters Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027213884. s. 17–34. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

• Saric, Ljiljana; Borza, Natalia; Koller, Veronika; Demata, Massimiliano & Filardo-Llamas, Laura (2023). European elections and the voices of supporters on social media, Voices of Supporters Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027213884. s. 1–16. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

• Saric, Ljiljana (2023). Croatia and Slovenia: Argumentation and identity construction by supporters of populists in the context of the 2019 European elections, Voices of Supporters Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027213884. s. 110–138. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Horvat, Marijana (2023). The description of prepositions and prefixes in Križanić’s grammar. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. ISSN 1331-6745. s. 87–105. Vis sammendrag

  This article discusses the approach to prepositions and prefixes in Juraj Križanić’s grammar Gramatíčno izkâzanje ob rúskom jezíku, in which these units are labeled predlóžok. The goal is to examine the specifics of Križanić’s description of prepositions and prefixes in Croatian and how he approached similarities and differences between Slavic languages with respect to these units. Some comments are first provided on the structure of Križanić’s grammar and an overview of the chapters in which prepositions and prefixes are discussed. The main part of the article directs attention to Križanić’s approach to the semantic and syntactic features of these units. In addition to considering how their semantic features are presented, the article examines Križanić’s approach to prepositions’ syntactic features and how the role of prepositions is viewed in the description of cases. In Križanić’s grammar, predlóžok is defined as one of the parts of speech and described in a separate part of the work (in the chapter Ob predlóžkeh). Other parts of the grammar mention or briefly reflect on some aspects of these units (e.g., their accentuation and their role in deriving perfective verbs). Prepositions are also discussed in the section Ob sodivanju besidnih razdilov, which examines syntactic and semantic features of temporal, locative, and other prepositional expressions. Križanić singled out one subgroup of predóžki as special: in the chapter Ob predlóžkeh, the section Predlóžki neotlúčni describes units that cannot function as independent words (voz, pre, raz, and su). Here, some other units that function as independent words in individual Slavic languages only (e.g., pro) are mentioned, as well as some dependent units that exist in some Slavic languages only.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Kuna, Dubravka (2022). ENGLISH CORRELATIVE COORDINATOR BOTH…AND IN ACADEMIC (SOCIOLOGICAL) DISCOURSE AND ITS CROATIAN EQUIVALENTS. Jezikoslovlje. ISSN 1331-7202. 23(2), s. 337–359. doi: 10.29162/jez.2022.14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  U engleskom su jeziku koordinacijski veznici (both…and, either…or, neither…nor i dr.) češći u pisanom nego u razgovornom diskursu, a osobito su uobičajeni u pisanom akademskom diskursu kojem osiguravaju karakterističnu preciznost (Biber i dr. 1999: 85). Ti veznici mogu povezivati fraze i rečenice. U ovom je radu pozornost usmjerena na koordinacijski veznik both … and u engleskom jeziku i njegove ekvivalente u hrvatskom jeziku. Materijal čine sve relevantne konstrukcije iz jednog terminološkog rječnika (The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology). Primjeri iz prakse u nastavi engleskog za akademske potrebe pokazuju da studenti često ne prepoznaju ovaj tip veznika, ili pak da njegov element both interpretiraju kao kvantifikator. Cilj je ovog rada utvrditi kojem tipu sintaktičke jedinice (fraza, rečenica) pripadaju strukture koje veznik both…and povezuje u engleskom jeziku te ih usporediti s njihovim ekvivalentima u hrvatskom jeziku. Također, rad pokušava utvrditi raspon sintaktičkih službi koje tako koordinirane strukture mogu imati. Konačno, ispituje se u kojoj se mjeri hrvatske inačice vezničkog para both…and razlikuju od izvornika, te koje su sintaktičke i semantičke razlike između koordiniranih struktura u engleskom i njihovih hrvatskih prijevodnih inačica. Key words: both...and; koordinacija; akademski diskurs; sintaktička jedinica; sintaktička služba.

• Saric, Ljiljana (2022). The Visualization of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ of 2015–2016: A Case Study of a Croatian Online News Source. I Gonzalez Ortega, Nelson Arturo & Martínez García, Ana Belén (Red.), Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe: Performing Borders, Identities and Texts. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-80073-380-0. s. 109–130. Vis sammendrag

  The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading international scholars of migration from perspectives as varied as literature, linguistics, area and cultural studies, media and communication, visual arts, and film studies. Together, they offer innovative interpretations of migrants and contemporary migration to Europe, enriching today’s political and media landscape, and engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility and rights of both extra-European migrants and European citizens.

• Saric, Ljiljana (2022). Impoliteness strategies in Croatian and Serbian user comments on online news articles: A study based on readers’ perceptions. Jezikoslovlje. ISSN 1331-7202. 23(1), s. 1–34. doi: 10.29162/jez.2022.1. Vis sammendrag

  This study examines readers’ perceptions of impoliteness in user comments on online news articles in two daily newspapers: Croatia’s Jutarnji list and Serbia’s Večernje novosti. The study considers judgments by four younger study participants that did not participate in the online discussions as posters. These readers evaluated impoliteness from their own point of view, identifying impolite utterances in 668 user comments. Participants’ judgments are categorized and analyzed drawing on Culpeper’s (2011a) taxonomy of impoliteness formulae and triggers. The study focuses on utterances and language means judged impolite by the majority — that is, three or four participants — with the aim of identifying frequent impoliteness formulae and language means that are judged to be impolite. Among the phenomena judged impolite by three or four readers, predominant are conventionalized impoliteness formulae with terms from the domains of sexual activities and mental health, and referential terms with a historical burden. Cursing was regularly judged impolite, as well as expressions with words from the semantic domain of scatology, words evoking animal metaphors, and name modifications (blends) resulting in taboo or derogatory terms. There seems to be a strong correlation between the phenomena judged impolite and discursive identity construction — that is, establishing the border between “us” and “them” — which in the data often involved negative, and even stigmatizing, descriptions of those considered to belong to another national group. Keywords: impoliteness judgments, impoliteness interpretations, user comments, impoliteness formulae, Croatian and Serbian newspapers

• Saric, Ljiljana & Horvat, Marijana (2021). The Instrumental Case in Croatian Grammars Until the End of the Nineteenth Century with an Emphasis on Comitative and Instrumental Meanings. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. ISSN 1331-6745. 47(2), s. 285–314. doi: 10.31724/rihjj.47.2.2.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2021). Prepositions. I Greenberg, Marc L. & Grenoble, Lenore (Red.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics . Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004326897.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2021). Secondary predicates. I Greenberg, Marc L. & Grenoble, Lenore (Red.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics . Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004326897.
• Saric, Ljiljana & Nedelcheva, Svetlana (2021). The semantic profile of the verbal prefix do- in Bulgarian and Croatian. Словѣне. ISSN 2304-0785. 10(2), s. 252–276. doi: 10.31168/2305-6754.2021.10.2.10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Nedelcheva, Svetlana & Saric, Ljiljana (2021). Translating deictic motion verbs among Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian: a corpus-based study. Russian Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 2687-0088. 25(67), s. 43–67. doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-2021-25-1-43-67. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana & Saric, Ljiljana (2020). Chocolate, identity and extreme speech online: An analysis of linguistic means in online comments in Croatia and Serbia. FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and practice. ISSN 1894-5988. 7(1). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this article the phrase “extreme speech” is used to encompass both hate speech and impoliteness. Legislation against hate speech has been passed in many countries, while work on defining phenomena related to hate speech is still ongoing. As a rule, there is no legislation prohibiting impoliteness, and thus impoliteness is often perceived as a less serious verbal offence. There is, however, a grey zone between the two phenomena, which depends on contextual factors that must be constantly explored. In this article, we explore the gray zone between hate speech and impoliteness by looking at user-generated posts commenting on seemingly uncontroversial topics such as giving chocolate to children. The context we explore is the political relationship between Croatia and Serbia, two neighboring countries in the southwest Balkans with a history of recent military conflicts that ended in 1995. The relationship between these two countries can still be described as periodically troubled. The comments we analyze were posted on two online newspapers, the Croatian Jutarnji list and the Serbian Večernje novosti. Using impoliteness theory and Critical Discourse Analysis framework we identify and analyze various linguistic means that serve as extreme speech triggers, connect them to relevant contexts and highlight the grey zone that exist between hate speech and impoliteness. Our findings show that, in their discussions, the posters used a number of linguistic means for constructing national identities that at times resulted in extreme speech. The posters often targeted individual co-posters first and very quickly moved on to target ethnic groups, thus fluctuating between impoliteness and hate speech.

• Saric, Ljiljana (2020). Metaphorical conceptualization of hope (nada) in Croatian: A corpus-based study. Современа филологија. ISSN 2545-4765. 3(2), s. 7–27. doi: 10.37834/JCP202007sh. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This study examines the role of metaphor in the conceptualization of hope (nada) in the Croatian corpus hrWaC. Employing “metaphorical pattern analysis” (Stefanowitsch, 2006), I analyze metaphorical patterns with the target-domain word nada ‘hope’. These patterns were extracted from a random sample of 1000 citations and additional citations retrieved based on the collocation candidates’ list. The analysis shows that the conceptualization of hope in Croatian relates to approximately fifty metaphorical source domains. The most frequently utilized are object, container, and companion, which apply to many other emotions, dispositions, and states. The study builds on relevant research questions and findings on the conceptual representation of emotions and metaphors structuring emotions within cognitive linguistic research. It offers a basis for future qualitative studies about hope as a universal and culture-specific concept.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Ristivojević-Rajković, Nataša (2019). From Heaven to Hell and Back: Representations of Scandinavia in South Slavic Online Sources. I Llosa Sanz, Álvaro & Khachaturyan, Elizaveta (Red.), Scandinavia through Sunglasses: Spaces of Cultural Exchange between Southern/SouthEastern and Nordic Countries. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 978-3-631-79160-8. s. 183–196.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2019). Pristup metafori u kognitivnoj lingvistici . I Molvarec, Lana & Piskovic, Tatjana (Red.), Metafore u hrvatskome jeziku, književnosti i kulturi. Zbornik radova 47. seminara Zagrebačke slavističke škole. FF press, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. ISSN 9789531757843. s. 231–247.
• Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan & Saric, Ljiljana (2019). Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations. I Saric, Ljiljana & Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan (Red.), Metaphor, Nation and Discourse. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027202499. s. 1–32. doi: 10.1075/dapsac.82.01sta.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2019). How to do things with metaphors: The prison of nations metaphor in South Slavic online sources. I Saric, Ljiljana & Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan (Red.), Metaphor, Nation and Discourse. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027202499. s. 287–319. doi: 10.1075/dapsac.82.12sar.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2019). Visual Presentation of Refugees During the “Refugee Crisis” of 2015–2016 on the Online Portal of the Croatian Public Broadcaster. International Journal of Communication. ISSN 1932-8036. 13, s. 991–1015. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article examines the visual representation of refugees on the Croatian public broadcaster’s (HRT) online portal during the so-called European refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016. A content analysis of 887 images is linked to the main research question of how refugees were represented and what this means for framing the refugee situation. I examine how the visual presentation of refugees relates to the dominant discourses on migration: discourses of victimhood or threat. The analysis concentrates on both the macro and micro levels following some assumptions of social semiotics, as well as research in psychology, media, and migration studies. The study finds that the visual presentation is strongly linked to the local context. The humanitarian approach and the visibilities of biological life and empathy were most prominent. Keywords: visual representation, refugee crisis, Croatian public broadcaster’s online portal

• Saric, Ljiljana & Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana (2019). Representations of the 2015/2016 “migrant crisis” on the online portals of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters. I Viola, Lorella & Musolff, Andreas (Red.), Migration and Media. Discourses about Identities in Crisis. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027202475. s. 203–238. doi: 10.1075/dapsac.81.10sar. Vis sammendrag

  This chapter investigates the verbal and visual representation of migration and migrants in Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in 2015/2016. The study shows that migrants are generally positively represented, which is congruent with the official policies of Croatia and Serbia. This positive representation was frequently used for positive self-evaluation of these countries’ influential social actors, and negative evaluation of neighboring countries. The chapter employs macro- and micro-linguistic analysis within the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis and multimodal analysis.

• Alvestad, Silje Susanne & Saric, Ljiljana (2018). De-type discourse particles in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Turkish. Turcologica. ISSN 0177-4743. s. 11–31. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh4zh3p.7.
• Vezovnik, Andreja & Saric, Ljiljana (2018). Subjectless images: visualization of migrants in Croatian and Slovenian public broadcasters’ online news. Social Semiotics. ISSN 1035-0330. doi: 10.1080/10350330.2018.1541117. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article explores how migrants were visually presented during the so-called migration crisis in southeast Europe in the fall of 2015. It considers photographs from two public broadcasters’ news portals: Slovenia's rtvslo.si and Croatia's hrt.hr. The focus is on a specific category of images we label subjectless images; that is, images visually representing migrants and migration that avoid showing migrants as subjects. In these images, subjects are substituted by objects that metaphorically, metonymically, or symbolically stand for migrants and migration. The article explores the ideological operation of subjectless images, which operates through the logic of substituting human subjects with metaphorical, metonymic, and symbolic objects. What is presented to viewers as a certain object's mimetic image is explored within the production of a specific narrative and signification.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Demata, Massimiliano (2018). Discursive constructions of migrants. Verbal and visual images of "the other". I-LanD Journal - Identity, Language and Diversity. ISSN 2532-6368. s. 3–10.
• Horvat, Marijana & Saric, Ljiljana (2018). THE DATIVE IN CROATIAN ŠTOKAVIAN AND KAJKAVIAN GRAMMARS UP TO 1860. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. ISSN 1331-6745. 44(133). doi: 10.31724/rihjj.44.1.5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Saric, Ljiljana (2018). Bliskoznačni prefigirani glagoli: konstrukcija značenja i scenariji. I Kovacic, Mislav & Kosutar, Petra (Red.), Od dvojbe do razdvojbe. Zbornik radova u čast profesorici Branki Tafri. Hrvatska sveucilisna naklada. ISSN 9789537997335. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Saric, Ljiljana & Nedelcheva, Svetlana (2018). The verbal prefix u- in Bulgarian and Croatian. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 18(2), s. 252–282. doi: 10.1075/lic.16015.sar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana & Saric, Ljiljana (2017). Interpreting impoliteness: Interpreters’ voices. FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and practice. ISSN 1894-5988. 4(1), s. 1–17. doi: 10.7577/fleks.2436. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Interpreters in the public sector in Norway interpret in a variety of institutional encounters, and the interpreters evaluate the majority of these encounters as polite. However, some encounters are evaluated as impolite, and they pose challenges when it comes to interpreting impoliteness. This issue raises the question of whether interpreters should take a stance on their own evaluation of impoliteness and whether they should interfere in communication. In order to find out more about how interpreters cope with this challenge, in 2014 a survey was sent to all interpreters registered in the Norwegian Register of Interpreters. The survey data were analyzed within the theoretical framework of impoliteness theory using the notion of moral order as an explanatory tool in a close reading of interpreters’ answers. The analysis shows that interpreters reported using a variety of strategies for interpreting impoliteness, including omissions and downtoning. However, the interpreters also gave examples of individual strategies for coping with impoliteness, such as interrupting and postponing interpreting. These strategies border behavioral strategies and conflict with the Norwegian ethical guidelines for interpreting. In light of the ethical guidelines and actual practice, mapping and discussing different strategies used by interpreters might heighten interpreters’ and interpreter-users’ awareness of the role impoliteness can play in institutional interpreter–mediated encounters.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Luccarelli, Mark (2017). Guest editors' introduction: Symbols and symbolic meanings in constructions of nations and national identity. Druzboslovne razprave. ISSN 0352-3608. 33(85), s. 5–12.
• Saric, Ljiljana & Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana (2017). “Cyrillic Does Not Kill”: Symbols, Identity, and Memory in Croatian Public Discourse. Druzboslovne razprave. ISSN 0352-3608. 85, s. 51–72. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article addresses identity construction through social symbolic meanings conveyed in discussions about scripts, primarily Cyrillic, in Croatian public discourse. We focus on discussions in various Croatian online sources from 2013 to 2015 centred on the topic of “Cyrillic as a symbol” and serving as an umbrella for discursive negotiations of (a) identity and belonging, (b) collective memory of the recent past, and (c) minority rights. The symbolic meanings of Cyrillic have been developed and utilized by politicians, professionals, various organizations, and ordinary people in various contexts and with various aims: from delegitimizing political actors and propagating hostility and reconciliation, to creating a “useful” past and consolidating collective identity.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana (2017). In Transit: Representations of Migration on the Balkan Route. Discourse Analysis of Croatian and Serbian Public Broadcasters (RTS and HRT Online). Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. ISSN 2213-1272. 5(2), s. 227–250. doi: 10.1075/jlac.5.2.04fel. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Saric, Ljiljana & Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana (2017). Realizations and functions of impoliteness in discourse about language and identity in Croatian and Montenegrin media. I Baczkowska, Anna (Red.), Impoliteness in Media Discourse. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631645109. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Baczkowska, Anna & Saric, Ljiljana (2016). Identity, impoliteness and integration in online immigration discourse. Linguistics Applied. ISSN 1689-7765. 5. Vis sammendrag

  The paper presents an analysis of the language used on the Internet (social media) by Poles living in Norway. Emphasis is placed on identity construction, integration and impoliteness strategies. The material presented in this study was retrieved from a corpus which was collected in 2015-2016 as part of a project devoted to national identity in immigration discourse. The method of analysis presented in this paper follows Culpeper‟s (1996) taxonomy of impoliteness strategies. The data under inspection illustrate several types of positive and negative impoliteness. The results of the study demonstrate that the Polish diaspora in Norway is only partially integrated and that the language Poles use while writing both about the Norwegians and, in particular, about other Poles is imbued with insults, negative associations and derogatory nominations.

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• Koller, Veronika; Saric, Ljiljana; Borza, Natalia; Demata, Massimiliano; Filardo-Llamas, Laura & Gustafsson, Anna W. [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Voices of Supporters Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027213884. 101(6). 327 s. Vis sammendrag

  This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Brala-Vukanovic, Marija (2019). Slike jezika: Temeljne kognitivnolingvističke teme. Naklada Jesenski i Turk. ISBN 9789532228786. 310 s. Vis sammendrag

  U deset poglavlja ova knjiga približuje ključne teme suvremene kognitivne lingvistike, te nudi iscrpan prikaz kognitivnolingvističkih istraživanja u Hrvatskoj. Obrađene teme uključuju: konstruiranje značenja, kategorizaciju, metaforu, metonimiju, kao i teme kojima se pozornost počela pridavati tek posljednjih godina - primjerice, vizualnu metaforu. Knjiga je namijenjena studentima filoloških i komunikoloških usmjerenja, ali i širim krugovima čitatelja, odnosno svima onima koji se zanimaju za vezu jezika i mišljenja, te pitanje kako se u komunikaciji stvara značenje.

• Saric, Ljiljana & Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan (2019). Metaphor, Nation and Discourse. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027202499. 363 s.

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• Poldvere, Nele & Saric, Ljiljana (2022). A study of metaphorical cues of deception in fake news. Vis sammendrag

  Fake news is an age-old problem, but it is only with the growth of digital communication in recent years that is has become a serious threat to national security. However, current language-based approaches to fake news detection have focused mainly on their topical trends rather than on the linguistic explanations for how and why the language of fake news differs from that of real news. This study seeks to fill this gap by drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) to (i) identify differences in metaphorical language use between fake and real news, and to (ii) provide tentative explanations for the occurrence of metaphorical cues of deception in fake news. Previous research has found metaphor to be a useful resource for describing personal experiences (Gibbs & Franks, 2002) and so it is reasonable to assume that this applies to lived experiences, too. Therefore, we expect fake news to be characterised by a more limited use of metaphor. The data are from the Jayson Blair corpus (Grieve & Woodfield, forthcoming), a collection of 36 fake news and 28 real news articles by the former New York Times journalist Jayson Blair. In the fake news articles, Blair lied about being on site and fabricated comments, among other things, which required him to write about events and places that he did not experience. The methodological approach is a combination of Cameron’s (2003) and Pragglejaz Group’s (2007) procedures. The texts were read in full to identify the full range of metaphorical expressions, which were then classified into source domains. The findings provide support for the above expectation. Moreover, the fake news articles contain more conventional domains of experience such as events are objects, as opposed to real news, which favours more creative instantiations of the war and sports domains. References Cameron, L. (2003). Metaphor in educational discourse. Continuum. Gibbs, R. W. Jr., & Franks, H. (2002). Embodied metaphor in women’s narratives about their experiences with cancer. Health Communication, 14(2), 139–165. Grieve, J., & Woodfield, H. (forthcoming). The language of fake news. Cambridge Elements in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. The University of Chicago Press. Pragglejaz Group. (2007). MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse. Metaphor and Symbol 22(1), 1–39.

• Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana & Saric, Ljiljana (2022). Crisis Translation in the COVID-19 Context in Norway: The Case of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS).
• Poldvere, Nele & Saric, Ljiljana (2022). How (not) to get away with deception: Metaphorical cues of deception in fake news. Vis sammendrag

  Jayson Blair was fired from The New York Times in the early 2000s for writing news articles that contained intentionally false information, such as not being in the location where the news was reported. Grieve and Woodfield (forthcoming) have even noted that, in many ways, Blair “ushered in the modern era of fake news” (p. 31), a serious threat to today’s democracies. Moreover, the authors found Blair’s fake news articles to be grammatically distinct from his real news articles, a finding that contributes to the growing field of the language of fake news. This study explores further features of this genre through the study of metaphorical language in Blair’s articles. Metaphor (e.g., COVID-19 comes in waves) has been found to vary considerably depending on the discourse community to which the speaker/writer belongs, and conceptual metaphor, in particular (e.g., disease is a natural disaster), reveals a fundamental part of the way people think, reason and imagine (Gibbs, 2017). In this study, we explore the hypothesis that metaphor is more limited in Blair’s fake news articles compared to his real news articles due to the lack of perceptual information in such contexts. In other words, it might be difficult to recount real-life stories without being able to rely on one’s embodied experiences, such as having been in a place that one is writing about. The results of this study can have important implications, not only for the study of the language and psychology of fake news, but also for deception more generally. References Gibbs, R. W. Jr. (2017). Metaphor wars: Conceptual metaphors in human life. Cambridge University Press. Grieve, J., & Woodfield, H. (forthcoming). The language of fake news. Cambridge Elements in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.

• Saric, Ljiljana (2021). Metaphor and National Identity. Alternative Conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon. Metaphor and the Social World. ISSN 2210-4070. 11(1), s. 184–190.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2017). Impoliteness in Online Comments in Croatian and Serbian Newspapers.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2017). Jezik i prostor - komparativni i kontrastivni pristup glagolskim prefiksima.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2017). How to Do Things with Metaphors: The “Prison of Nations” Metaphor in South Slavic Online Sources.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2017). Visual Representations of Migrants during the so-called 2015 and 2016 Refugee Crisis: An Analysis of the Online Portals of Croatian and Serbian Public Broadcasters.
• Saric, Ljiljana & Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana (2017). Guest editors' introduction: Impoliteness in intercultural encounters. FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and practice. ISSN 1894-5988. 4(1), s. 1–9.
• Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana & Saric, Ljiljana (2016). Representations of Migration on the Balkan Route: Discourse Analysis of Croatian and Serbian Public Broadcasters (RTS and HRT Online).
• Felberg Radanovic, Tatjana & Saric, Ljiljana (2016). Interpreters' perceptions of impoliteness in the public sector settings in Norway.

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