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KULTOROLOŠKI KONCEPT RATA U ETNOLINGVISTICI

CULTURAL CONCEPT OF WAR IN ETHNOLINGUISTICS

Amina Hadžibegić-Bicciato
Fakultet za upravu u Sarajevu
pridružena članica Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Patriotske lige 41
Sarajevo

 

Ključne riječi: etnolingvistika, rat, zamjena, retorika,metafora

Sažetak

Rad tretira etnolingvistiku kao granu lingvističkih nauka i kultorološki koncept rata u anglosaksonskoj kulturi a za korpus uzima ugledne i relevantne medije tih zemalja iz protekle dekade kako bi se dokazalo koliko politika koristi jezik i tako manipuliše sviješću ljudi. Nejasno prikazivanje termina ‘rat’, njegovo širenje kao organizacionog koncepta političke retorike i kulture straha u toj dekadi može se smatrati momentom koji je definisao transformaciju američkog pogleda na svijet od strane neokonzervativnih mislilaca i političara. Rad pokušava pokazati da su pojmovi oblikovani u metaforama: metaforički putevi se otvaraju i ograničavaju pojam kojim
razmišljamo i definišu način na koji doživljavamo rat i našu ulogu u njemu. Ukazuje i na termin zamjena koji je u stvari retorički trop i definiše se kao retorička strategija koja koristi metaforu da uvede istovremeni dvosmjerni semantički pomak.

Key words: ethnolinguistics, war, switch, rhetoric, metaphor.

Summary

This paper deals with the ethnolinguistics as a branch of linguistic sciences and also with the cultural conept of war found in the Anglosaxon society. It relies on the texts published in eminent media of those countries during the past decade in order to prove to which extent the politics uses the language and manipulates the minds of people that way. Ambigous presentation of the term ‘war’, its spreading as if it were organisational concept of political rhetoric and dissemination of fear during the mentioned period may be taken as a moment that has defined a transformation of American view of the world representing in fact their neoconservatives strata of thinkers and politicians. The paper has tried to show that notions formed as metaphors open and define the way we think of any concept, the war included. It also mentions the switch used as a rhetoric strategy which then places a metaphor as a tool for introduction of a twoway simultaneous semantic step ahead.