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In:Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 82] 2019
► pp. 259–286

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Chapter 10
Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse

 | University of Zagreb
Published online: 20 May 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.82.11sta
Abstract
In this chapter I argue that the Croatian term nacija ‘nation’ exhibits local rather than global metaphoricity. The study is based on 990 concordances of nacija from the hrWaC corpus of online Croatian, combined with several threads focusing on the notion of the nation from an online forum. Metaphors account for one quarter of the corpus examples. They are related to the non-metaphorical aspects of meaning through motivational links, depend on the conceptual characteristics of the grammatical constructions in which they appear, and on conventional extensions of source-domain terms. Forum participants use metaphors to serve current communicative purposes. It is shown that global organizational conceptual metaphors are a sum of local conceptualizations.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Conceptual and discursive approaches to metaphor and their methodologies
    • 2.1The rationale for the methodology used in this study
    • 2.2The nation and its metaphors
  • 3.The procedure used in this study
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Aspects of meaning
    • 4.2Potentially metaphorical expressions and their groups
    • 4.3Grammatical characteristics
    • 4.4Lexical schematicity
    • 4.5Discourse-based perspective
      • 4.5.1Discourse clusters and potentially metaphorical expressions
      • 4.5.2Legitimization and delegitimization in the forum
  • 5.Discussion and conclusion: Where does the metaphoricity of nacija lie?
  • Notes
  • References
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