Between Political Myths, Dormant Resentments, and Redefinition of the Recent History: A Case Study of Serbian National Identity

The subject of the article concerns issue constructing and reconstructing national identity. object interest here is a sociological case study Serbian It includes reconstruction interpretation in-depth interviews conducted in Serbia with representatives symbolic elites. concept elites approached discussed research from Teun van Dijk’s perspective. Thus, they are individuals groups directly involved production public opinion, who have an impact on content publicly available knowledge, creation legitimization discourse. work embedded methodological framework Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) based assumptions Discourse‐Historical Approach (DHA). In this optics, most important thing historical social context studied process discursive construction Therefore, conclusions also touch upon historical, political, perspective formation reflection aims at presenting analysis contemporary (mainly 2008-2020). paying attention to political divisions country’s road democratization European integration, shows comprehensive specifics