This monograph introduces the Evaluative Discourse Metaphor model, which argues that participants in public and semi-public online discourse (re)use evaluative metaphors to construct and maintain communities. We explore how such metaphors trigger others with similar forms, though not necessarily… read more
Veronika Koller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner
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. read more
Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević
This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the… read more
Edited by Ljiljana Šarić, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge
How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations? This volume examines the discursive construction of identity related to important national holidays in nine countries of Central Europe and the Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic,… read more
In this final chapter, we will answer our overall research questions, comparing findings across the various contexts investigated in the preceding chapters. In doing so, we will point out what voting motivations, aspects of national identities and ways of recontextualising original posts are… read more
This chapter analyses the argumentation of populist parties’ supporters in Croatia and Slovenia in the context of the 2019 European Parliament elections. It focuses on two countries that are rather different in terms of populist tendencies, juxtaposing right-wing (Slovenia) and left-wing… read more
This article investigates the representation of migration and migrants in Croatianand Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in2015/2016. The study shows that there are similarities in representations in thetwo portals at both the macro- and micro-linguistic levels.… read more
This chapter examines the prison of nations metaphor in South Slavic online sources, focusing particularly on its use and functions in contemporary Croatian discourse as reflected in the Croatian Web Corpus hrWaC. Assuming that certain metaphors in discourse are used consciously and… read more
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… read more
This study compares the semantic networks of the verbal prefix u- in two South Slavic languages, Bulgarian (blg.) and Croatian (cro.), in a cognitive linguistics framework using two databases of prefixed verbs drawn from dictionaries and corpora. We point to similarities and overlapping… read more
This article investigates the representation of migration and migrants in Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in 2015/2016. The study shows that there are similarities in representations in the two portals at both the macro- and micro-linguistic… read more
This chapter analyzes the identity-building force of and controversies associated with national days in Croatia by examining the front pages of three influential Croatian dailies (Vjesnik, Slobodna Dalmacija, and Novi list) from 1988 to 2005. Following a social semiotics approach (Kress and Leeuwen… read more
This chapter analyzes Serbian media discourse related to Serbia’s Statehood Day (Dan državnosti) since its introduction, and how the discourse has shaped and reinforced collective memory. Statehood Day is celebrated on 15 February, the same day as a religious holiday and an army holiday. The… read more
