Koronavirus - Stožer, mediji i diskurs militarizacije u hrvatskom društvu

This paper aims to analyse and interpret a specific public-media discourse that was formed in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in Croatia. We traced utterances related to the covid-crises that carried war-and-military features, as a specific communicative events that emerged within mediated communication, situated between media content production and consumption. In a wider perspective, this was related to sociocultural practices of language use, more specifically to power relations and ideology. Therefore, the theoretical frameworks of biopolitics and critical discourse analysis will be used in the analysis of defined phenomena. The articulation of cwar-and-military discourse in public communication had three socio-political functions: discipline; public support to the Government and its decisions; and homogenization of the nation.