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It goes without saying (though I will say it anyway)

Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić
E-mail: tgradeca@knjiga.ffos.hr
Sveučilište u Osijeku

Dorijan Gudurić
University College of London
Abstract: It is not very frequently assumed that negation may play an active role in achieving specific conceptual frames, but as claimed by Langacker (2008) or Lakoff (2004), language enables the actual physic...

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Discourse analysis and determination in the light of subjectification theory

Piotr Cap
E-mail: strus_pl@yahoo.com
University of of Lódz, Department of Linguistic Pragmatics
Abstract: The present paper bridges considerations characteristic of the domains of linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as of cognitive linguistics and social psychology. It is claimed that, in s...

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Magic tricks with race cards: Conceptual integration theory and political discourse

Sanja Berberović
E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: The paper examines the use of creative figurative language in American political discourse. In particular, the paper focuses on the use of the expression to play the race card and the creative figurat...

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Knocking on EU’s door: On the changing and conflicting metaphorical images of Croatia in selected EU press

Ana Werkmann
E-mail: awerk023@uottawa.ca
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0720-2575
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku

Gabrijela Buljan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0720-2575
Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to analyze the metaphorical construal of Croatia’s EU accession in the political discourse of selected EU press. We first analyze the metaphorical expressions collected betwe...

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THE PRESIDENT AND THE VIPER: POLITICAL SATIRE AND CONCEPTUAL BLENDING THEORY

Sanja Berberović
E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
University of Tuzla

Nihada Delibegović Džanić
University of Tuzla
Abstract: Applying conceptual blending theory, the paper analyses the construction of the meaning of a satirical text ridiculing the language employed by politicians to frame the debate on current political and...

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The Otherness and the Consumer: External and internal horror as rhetorical framing devices on the silver screen and in real time

Ilhana Škrgić
E-mail: ilhana.skrgic@bih.net.ba
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3054-9112
Independent researcher
Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the main paradigms of the horror genre and their equivalents in the conservative – liberal political division in the United States by exploring the dominant political rhetor...