Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations / Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic & Ljiljana Šaric
  • Part I. Discourses and voices of the powerful elites: 1. The desire for shelter: Nation- and state-building and the metaphorical discourse of fragile and collapsed states / Michael P. Marks
  • 2. Barbed wire around Serbia: Migrant metaphors as a means of constructing national identity / Tatjana Đurović & Nadežda Silaški
  • 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe: Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004 / Aleksander Gomola
  • 4. 'Let's work on our Serbian!': Standard language ideology, metaphors and discourses about Serbian national identity in the newspaper Politika in 2015 / Stijn Vervaet
  • 5. Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identity / Višnja Čičin-Šain
  • 6. Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871-1914) / Felicity Rash
  • 7. The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors: German Heimat and Russian Motherland / Agne Cepinskyte
  • 8. 'The state of our union is strong' Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses / Massimiliano Demata
  • Part II. Semi-official and mixed discourses: 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation: An emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions / Benedikt Perak
  • 10. Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse / Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic
  • 11. How to do things with metaphors: The prison of nations metaphor in South Slavic online sources / Ljiljana Šaric
  • 12. Guidelines on how to construct a nation: Metaphors in the first episode of the Catalan series Gran Nord / Silvia Grassi
  • Afterword: Nations need (new?) metaphors / Andreas Musolff
  • Notes on contributors.