A marathon to nowhere

IF 0.7 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pragmatics and Society Pub Date : 2023-04-06 DOI:10.1075/ps.20002.bab
Z. Babić, Milica Vuković-Stamatović, Vesna Bratić
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The paper examines the accession is a race metaphor in the online news articles published in three Western Balkans’ countries (Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Hercegovina), in the context of their accession to the EU. Through the methodological lens of the conceptual metaphor theory and critical metaphor analysis, our study shows that the conceptualisation of the accession as a race might purport different, even mutually conflicted political stances, i.e. it can have a laudatory function praising those at the forefront of the “race”, while at the same time calling for patience invoking the picture of the race as a marathon, long and exhausting, demanding in both time and stamina. Without delving further into the political reasons, concerns and vested interests of the stakeholders involved, what can be said with much certainty is that both the EU and the regional officials have made some creative excuses for the excessive duration of the EU integration process for the WB’s countries, and these have been analysed in the present study. The analysis has shown that the “finish line” of the race (the accession itself), long or short, is far less important in the regional news discourse than reaching further out than your co-runners, i.e. your immediate neighbours and competitors.
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这篇论文探讨了在西巴尔干三个国家(塞尔维亚、黑山和波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那)加入欧盟的背景下,加入是在线新闻文章中的种族隐喻。通过概念隐喻理论和批判性隐喻分析的方法论视角,我们的研究表明,将加入作为一个种族的概念化可能意味着不同的、甚至相互冲突的政治立场,即它可以具有赞扬那些处于“种族”前沿的人的功能,同时呼吁人们保持耐心,将比赛视为一场漫长而疲惫的马拉松比赛,对时间和耐力都要求很高。在不进一步探究相关利益相关者的政治原因、担忧和既得利益的情况下,可以肯定的是,欧盟和地区官员都为世界银行国家的欧盟一体化进程持续时间过长找了一些创造性的借口,本研究对此进行了分析。分析表明,比赛的“终点线”(加入本身),无论是长距离还是短距离,在地区新闻话语中都远不如你的竞争对手,即你的近邻和竞争对手更重要。
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