Despite attempts to discourage sub-state nationalism and keep the political map of the world in its present form, the struggle for separate identities still remains a serious issue in modern-day countries. Sub-state nationalism has led to violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa, the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, and has been one of the main causes of political upheaval in Belgium, Britain, Spain, China, etc.
As Anderson (1983) indicates, nations are imagined communities whose formation involves the spread of discourses aimed at establishing a clear difference between in-groups and out-groups. While national identity has attracted a fair amount of scholarly interest in the field of political science, it is only in the early 90s that studies emphasizing the discursive manifestations of nationalism started being conducted (Wodak & Matouschek, 1993; Wodak & Reisigl, 1999; Wodak et al. 1999).
These last two decades, the study of political discourse has been consolidated by metaphor analysis (Musolff, 2006; 2016; Saric & Stanojevic, 2019), and even though great strides have indeed been made in political discourse analysis, research on sub-state nationalism remains scant. It is thus in an attempt to fill this gap that we are organizing this conference which will hopefully bring together researchers from different fields (linguistics, sociology, political science, cognitive science), interested in discourse, metaphor and nationalist ideologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
- The discursive construction of (sub-state) national identity
- Characteristics of separatist discourse
- Conceptualisations of the body politic
- Metaphor scenarios in national identity discourse
- Visual metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse
- Gender and metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse
Each presentation will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.
Conference proposals should include:
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- Key words (max. 5 words)
- An abstract (300 words, excluding references)
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Individual and co-authored papers in English or French are welcome.
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