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Metaphorical and non-metaphorical dimensions of the term <i>nacija</i> in Croatian online discourse

In this chapter I argue that the Croatian term nacija ‘nation’ exhibits local rather than global metaphoricity. The study is based on 990 concordances of nacija from the hrWaC corpus of online Croatian, combined with several threads focusing on the notion of the nation from an online forum. Metaphors account for one quarter of the corpus examples. They are related to the non-metaphorical aspects of meaning through motivational links, depend on the conceptual characteristics of the grammatical constructions in which they appear, and on conventional extensions of source-domain terms. Forum participants use metaphors to serve current communicative purposes. It is shown that global organizational conceptual metaphors are a sum of local conceptualizations.

metaphor, discourse, concepts, nation, Croatian, local, global, Cognitive Grammar

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