Table of contents

Chapters in this book

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