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The role of the metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of NATION. An emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions.

This corpus-based study presents an emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions of the concept NATION. Using large Croatian corpora, I analyzed the ontological congruency of the collocations of the lexeme nacija ‘nation’ in five types of syntactic- semantic constructions. This approach enabled the formal hierarchical description of the metaphoric conceptualization of NATION and the cognitive mechanism of eliciting reification, personification and social appraisal of NATION. Metaphoric mapping is seen as a powerful instrument for conceptualizing the institutional status of NATION, reinforcing the interaction between MEMBERS, and the creation of collective IDENTITY that influences a PERSON’S self- appraisal, and vice versa.

conceptual analysis, ontological model, ontological (in)congruence, meronymy, metonymy, metaphor, pragmatic function, syntactic-semantic constructions

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