The thesis focuses primarily on the nomination and predication strategies for ethnic groups and states in the Croatian print media and the means of their linguistic realization. The methodological framework follows the discourse-historical approach (Reisigl i Wodak 2009), an approach within the critical paradigm of discourse analysis. The analysis of nomination strategies explores how ethnic groups and states are named and coded linguistically, whereas the analysis of predication strategies shows how they are qualified and which linguistic devices are used for this purpose. The subsequent discussion focuses on how these two strategies contribute to the construction of the particular national identity in the print media discourse. In addition, the contents analysis of news articles discussing frequently mentioned ethnic groups and states is carried out. Linguistic analysis concentrates on the conceptual metonymies and metaphors used to name ethnic groups and states. The findings of the corpus analysis indicate that frequently employed metonymic models include proper names, characteristic words and cultural and historical symbols. Personal names proved to be a particularly fertile source of metonymy, followed by geographical names, names from the sports, literature and arts, names of food and industrial products etc. The metaphors detected in the corpus thematize states as animals, people, mythical creatures, machines and events whereas state boundaries are experienced as obstacles. In comparison with metonymy, the occurrences of metaphor performing the same function are significantly smaller. The predication strategies thematize the size and status of the state, the geographical closeness or distance with regard to Croatia as the deictic center, the system of social and political organization, predominant religion, explicit “national characteristics” and evaluation of different aspects of life. Qualifications about ethnic groups and states often express stereotypes which may be either positive or negative. Linguistic devices used for realization of predication strategies vary in linguistic complexity and range from attributes, appositions, simple and complex clauses to collocations, idioms and different rhetorical devices. The findings of the corpus analysis indicate that the most frequent states in the Croatian print media include: the states of the former Yugoslavia conceptualized both as a group and as individual states, the group of European states and the group including all other world states. In the thesis, the relations within the immediate units of a particular utterance, intertextual or interdiscursive relations, situational context and a wider sociopolitical and historical context of discursive practice are examined to varying degrees. Finally, the general characteristics of the discourse about Others are discussed as well.