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Chapter 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe

Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004
  • Aleksander Gomola
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Metaphor, Nation and Discourse
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Abstract

This chapter investigates Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004 when the country joined the European Union, combining elements of the Discourse Historical Approach with a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. It focuses on conceptual metaphors for the Polish nation to demonstrate how they serve the Catholic Church in shaping Polish national identity in opposition to the common European project, and how the discourse in question is able to absorb the most significant national trauma in post-war Polish history – the Smoleńsk plane crash. Discursive practices aimed at shaping Polish national identity as a part of a broader European identity were examined by Krzyżanowski (2009) and Grimstad (2012). The discourse discussed in this chapter depicts these identities as incompatible and thus is “the other side of the coin” of the processes of conceptualizing Polish nationality after 2004.

Abstract

This chapter investigates Catholic-nationalist discourse in Poland after 2004 when the country joined the European Union, combining elements of the Discourse Historical Approach with a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. It focuses on conceptual metaphors for the Polish nation to demonstrate how they serve the Catholic Church in shaping Polish national identity in opposition to the common European project, and how the discourse in question is able to absorb the most significant national trauma in post-war Polish history – the Smoleńsk plane crash. Discursive practices aimed at shaping Polish national identity as a part of a broader European identity were examined by Krzyżanowski (2009) and Grimstad (2012). The discourse discussed in this chapter depicts these identities as incompatible and thus is “the other side of the coin” of the processes of conceptualizing Polish nationality after 2004.

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  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations 1
  5. Part I. Discourses and voices of the powerful elites
  6. Chapter 1. The desire for shelter 35
  7. Chapter 2. Barbed wire around Serbia 59
  8. Chapter 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe 75
  9. Chapter 4. “Let’s work on our Serbian!” 101
  10. Chapter 5. Metaphors for language contact and change 127
  11. Chapter 6. Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871–1914) 155
  12. Chapter 7. The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors 177
  13. Chapter 8. “The state of our Union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses 201
  14. Part II. Semi-official and mixed discourses
  15. Chapter 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation 227
  16. Chapter 10. Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse 259
  17. Chapter 11. How to do things with metaphors 287
  18. Chapter 12. Guidelines on how to construct a nation 321
  19. Afterword 347
  20. Notes on contributors 349
  21. Index 353
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.82.04gom

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Metaphors in the discursive construction of nations 1
  5. Part I. Discourses and voices of the powerful elites
  6. Chapter 1. The desire for shelter 35
  7. Chapter 2. Barbed wire around Serbia 59
  8. Chapter 3. Godly Poland in godless Europe 75
  9. Chapter 4. “Let’s work on our Serbian!” 101
  10. Chapter 5. Metaphors for language contact and change 127
  11. Chapter 6. Metaphors of plant cultivation and flowing liquid in German colonialist discourse (1871–1914) 155
  12. Chapter 7. The meaning of state created through symbols and metaphors 177
  13. Chapter 8. “The state of our Union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses 201
  14. Part II. Semi-official and mixed discourses
  15. Chapter 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation 227
  16. Chapter 10. Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term nacija in Croatian online discourse 259
  17. Chapter 11. How to do things with metaphors 287
  18. Chapter 12. Guidelines on how to construct a nation 321
  19. Afterword 347
  20. Notes on contributors 349
  21. Index 353
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