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%T Peace talks: indexical master tropes and their potential for conflict in the construction of national identity %A Stefanescu, Bogdan %J ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies %N 1 %P 11-31 %V 10 %D 2017 %K nationalist discourse; master tropes %@ 1775-352X %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-52913-1 %U http://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/article/view/372/404 %X This paper employs discursive constructivism to delineate four rhetorical paradigms of nationalist discourse and to compare their potential for conflict. It proposes a four-fold typology which sees the intuitive tropes of antithesis and simile, and the counterintuitive metaphor and irony as structuring principles for national self-images. These are four modes of constructing a cultural deixis, that is, a relationship between national self and its cultural other. The paper argues that the frequency and magnitude of nationalistic conflicts may be minimized by the steady and widespread counter-enculturation of the non-conflictual discourses of analogical (simile-based), metaphoric, and ironic nationalisms. This argument is illustrated with examples from modern and recent Romanian history, but may be taken to epitomize the condition of most postcommunist European nations. %C FRA %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info