Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day
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Ljiljana Šarić
Abstract
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 1998; Leeuwen 2005), I look at several front-page elements (congratulatory items, the relationship of visual and verbal elements, keywords of headlines and leads), and I analyze their function in three periods. The analysis seeks to explain how the changes in featuring Statehood Day on front pages relate to opposing Statehood Day narratives in Croatian public discourse, and to explain what factors contribute to the unstable nature of Statehood Day as a state symbol. Applying discourse-analytic categories of legitimization and othering, I examine how the newspapers and various participants in public discourse have used the holidays to create positive self-images and negative other-images.
Abstract
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 1998; Leeuwen 2005), I look at several front-page elements (congratulatory items, the relationship of visual and verbal elements, keywords of headlines and leads), and I analyze their function in three periods. The analysis seeks to explain how the changes in featuring Statehood Day on front pages relate to opposing Statehood Day narratives in Croatian public discourse, and to explain what factors contribute to the unstable nature of Statehood Day as a state symbol. Applying discourse-analytic categories of legitimization and othering, I examine how the newspapers and various participants in public discourse have used the holidays to create positive self-images and negative other-images.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Contributors vii
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Preface 1
- Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism 5
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Analyses
- Chapter 1. Collective memory and media genres 35
- Chapter 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday 57
- Chapter 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of communism 81
- Chapter 4. “Dan skuplji vijeka,” ‘A day more precious than a century’ 101
- Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day 125
- Chapter 6. Contested pasts, contested red-letter days 149
- Chapter 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944 171
- Chapter 8. Ilinden 191
- Chapter 9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday 213
- Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October 231
- Chapter 11. Disputes over national holidays 251
- Chapter 12. What Europe means for Poland 271
- References 297
- Appendix A. List of current laws on national holidays in West and South Slavic countries 311
- Index 313
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Contributors vii
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Preface 1
- Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism 5
-
Analyses
- Chapter 1. Collective memory and media genres 35
- Chapter 2. The quest for a proper Bulgarian national holiday 57
- Chapter 3. The multiple symbolism of 3 May in Poland after the fall of communism 81
- Chapter 4. “Dan skuplji vijeka,” ‘A day more precious than a century’ 101
- Chapter 5. Croatia in search of a national day 125
- Chapter 6. Contested pasts, contested red-letter days 149
- Chapter 7. Commemorating the Warsaw Uprising of 1 August 1944 171
- Chapter 8. Ilinden 191
- Chapter 9. Slovak national identity as articulated in the homilies of a religious holiday 213
- Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October 231
- Chapter 11. Disputes over national holidays 251
- Chapter 12. What Europe means for Poland 271
- References 297
- Appendix A. List of current laws on national holidays in West and South Slavic countries 311
- Index 313
