Table of contents // Acknowledgements // CHAPTER 1 Introduction // Martina Berrocal and Aleksandra Salamurovic CHAPTER 2 // Diffuse messages as aggression and violence in political discourse Holger Kuße // chapter 3 // The conflict about the 1940 Katyn massacre and the 2010 declaration of the Russian State Duma Daniel Weiss // chapter 4 // Gay rights as a symbol of ideological struggles between Russia , and the West: A socio-cognitive discourse analysis Veronika Koller // CHAPTER 5 // More than keywords: Discourse prominence analysis of the Russian Web Portal Sputnik Czech Republic Václav Cvrcek and Masako Fidler // CHAPTER 6 // Delegitimization strategies in Czech parliamentary discourse Martina Berrocal // CHAPTER 7 // Impoliteness in parliamentary questions Bartholomäus Nowak // vi Politicai Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe // CHAPTER 8 // Discursive construction of‘Us and ‘Them’: Analysis of commemorative speeches (2004-2016) on the Croatian Homeland War 179 // Sonja Riehn // CHAPTER 9 // Epistemes of contemporary nationhood: Narrations of the past, legitimations of the future 211 // Danijela Majstorovic // chapter 10 // Under One Sun? Semiotic transformation of the cognitive model nation in the Republic of Macedonia on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Independence in 2011 239 // Aleksandra Salamurovic // CHAPTER 11 // Epilogue 265 // Index 267