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Peace talks: indexical master tropes and their potential for conflict in the construction of national identity
Pourparlers pour la paix: des tropes principaux indexicaux et leur potentiel de conflit dans la construction de l'identité nationale
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Abstract 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 structur... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
constructivism; conflict potential; analysis; language; national consciousness; Romania; nationalism; rhetoric; language behavior; nation; national identity
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Free Keywords
nationalist discourse; master tropes
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 11-31
Journal
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 10 (2017) 1
ISSN
1775-352X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed