Trnovit put ka demokratiji: Metafora putanje u konceptualizaciji procesa tranzicije u Srbiji

Abstract

O procesu demokratizacije obično se govori kao o prelaženju određenog puta, kojim država putuje ka određenom cilju. Istraživanja u teorijskom okviru kognitivne lingvistike o ovakvoj upotrebi termina koji u jeziku primarno označavaju kretanje pronalaze manifestacije metafore PUTANJE i njenih podmetafora. Cilj istraživanja jeste da na primerima prikupljenim iz elektronskih izvora analizira tranzicioni diskurs koji se odnosi na Srbiju u desetogodišnjem periodu od 2000. do 2010. godine, i identifikuje pojmovna preslikavanja iz domena putovanja koja se upotrebljavaju u konceptualizaciji napretka koji je zemlja načinila u procesu tranzicije, kao i da ilustruje taj napredak kroz prizmu jezika koji ga opisuje. Glavni zaključak na osnovu izvršene analize jeste da je metafora PUTANJE veoma prisutna u oblikovanju diskursa o procesu demokratizacije i reformi srpskog društva, kao i da se praćenjem njenih manifestacija u analizi primarnog i sekundarnog političkog diskursa mogu donositi zaključci o stepenu uspeha zemlje u ovom dugom i teškom procesu.

The democratization process is usually refered to as the traversing of a certain path that a country has to take in order to reach a certain goal. The elements of the usual representation of the concept of a road, which are used in those cases, include various phrases referring to progressing along a path, finding and overcoming obstacles on the way, the speed of movement and the like. Although this type of discourse is not perceived as either new or original, considering the fact that it is highly conventionalized, research in the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics in terms of the use of expressions which are used in language primarily for denoting movement, usually surface in the manifestations of the metaphor of the JOURNEY and its submetaphors. The aim of this research is to use the examples gathered from electronic sources to analyze the transitional discourse used to refer to Serbia during a ten-year period, from 2000 to 2010, and to identify the concept transfers from the domain of a journey which are used to conceptualize progress of a country during a transition process, as well as to illustrate that progress through the prism of the languages which are used to describe it. The main conclusion that we reached on the basis of the completed analysis is that the JOURNEY metaphor is present in the shaping of the discourse on democratization and the reforms of Serbian society, as well as that the monitoring of its manifestations in the analysis of the primary and secondary political discourse can be used to draw conclusions on the degree of success that the country has had during this long and difficult process.