Titel: | Peace Talks: Indexical Master Tropes and Their Potential for Conflict in the Construction of National Identity; |
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In: | ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 10, 2017, 01, S. 11-31 |
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ESSACHESS
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
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2066-5083
1775-352X |
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EISSN: | 1775-352X |
veröffentlicht in: | ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | CEEOL Central and Eastern European Online Library sid-53-col-ceeol |
This paper employs discursive constructivism to delineate four rhetorical paradigms of nationalist discourse and to compare their potential for conflict. It proposes a four-fold typology which sees the intuitive tropes of antithesis and simile, and the counterintuitive metaphor and irony as structuring principles for national self-images. These are four modes of constructing a cultural deixis, that is, a relationship between national self and its cultural other. The paper argues that the frequency and magnitude of nationalistic conflicts may be minimized by the steady and widespread counter-enculturation of the non-conflictual discourses of analogical (simile-based), metaphoric, and ironic nationalisms. This argument is illustrated with examples from modern and recent Romanian history, but may be taken to epitomize the condition of most postcommunist European nations. |