{"title":"Nations as persons","authors":"A. Musolff","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.11MUS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.11MUS","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyses the construal of collective identities in the Middle East conflict, with special regard to the nation-as-person metaphor. This metaphor has been highlighted by proponents of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Metaphor Analysis as being instrumental in conceptualizing collective political entities as (pseudo-)personal identities. On the other hand, it has been critically argued that the nation-as-person metaphor should not be over-generalized and it has even been condemned as a fallacious theoretical construct. In view of the metaphor’s controversial status, the paper studies a corpus of ten speeches delivered by the Israeli and Palestinian political leaders B. Netanyahu and M. Abbas to the UN General assemblies in the period 2011–2015. Instances of emphatic use and enactment of the nation-as-person metaphor by the speakers are analysed in detail for their contextual implications and their function in collective identity-construction. The main finding is that whilst the nation-as-person metaphor is not ubiquitous in a statistical sense, it informs the fundamental pragmatic stance of the speakers as personifications of their nations’ collective identities vis-a-vis other nations. In conclusion, it is argued that such collective identity construction both expresses and shapes the progress of conflict communication.","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132022879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed”","authors":"A. Fetzer","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.10FET","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.10FET","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122698759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp","authors":"Michael Wentker","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.05WEN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.05WEN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132319329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indeterminate us and them: The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion","authors":"Sonja Kleinke, Birte Bös","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.07KLE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.07KLE","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131249812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The development of identity in Batman comics","authors":"C. Enzweiler","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.04ENZ","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.04ENZ","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122851487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way”","authors":"M. Eller","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.08ELL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.08ELL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129884789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Great pretenders","authors":"Monika Kirner-Ludwig","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.02KIR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.02KIR","url":null,"abstract":"This book focuses on Once (2006), Begin Again (2013), and Sing Street (2013), to date the most successful feature films by John Carney (Dublin, 1972). Drawing mainly on narrative, formalist, and genre theories of film, it presents an in-depth examination of how the formal and stylistic choices by the Irish filmmaker allow each to narrate a story in a certain, coherent way, hide its aural and visual contrivances behind a facade of realism, and engage with universal, national, and personal concerns, with each other, with other Irish and American films, and with mainstream (sub)genres, especially the backstage musical. It also explores the textual articulation of genre in each and the discrepancies between such articulation, the genre expectations set up by the promotional discourse coming from the publicity materials and events accompanying each release, and the genre labelling of each film in contemporary reviews by professional critics from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland.","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124386462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates","authors":"S. Mollin","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.09MOL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.09MOL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115120017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing personal identities online","authors":"Elise Salonen","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.03SAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.03SAL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128247713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread","authors":"Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen","doi":"10.1075/DAPSAC.78.06TAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/DAPSAC.78.06TAN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152213,"journal":{"name":"The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128306701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}