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        Date: 2025-03-12 20:21:56+00:00
        From: Chris Tang <chris.tang@kcl.ac.uk>
        Subject: Corpus Research and Beyond seminar 2nd April - Charlotte Taylor and Anna Marchi - Is nostalgia what it used to be?


Now with the direct link to event registration below (apologies for the
resend!)

Dear all
We are delighted to welcome to you to our next Corpus and Beyond seminar
on 2 April, 17-18.30. Drawing on corpus-assisted discourse analysis,
Charlotte Taylor and Anna Marchi will be examining the framing of the
labels "nostalgia" and "nostalgic", drawing on two diachronic corpora
covering the period 1800-2021 (title and abstract below and in the link).

The seminar will be held at King's College London's Waterloo campus and
online - details and registration via the following link:

Is nostalgia what it used to be?​ A corpus approach to diachronic change
in emotion talk​ | King's College London
<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/is-nostalgia-what-it-used-to-be-a-corpus-approach-
to-diachronic-change-in-emotion-talk>


For those attending from other time zones, please note the clocks will
go forward on 30 March in the UK (so we will be UTC +1).

You can find out more about our seminar series and previous talks here
<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/series/corpus-and-beyond>

Very much looking forward to welcoming you to what promises to be a
fantastic talk and discussion.

Esra, Clyde, Elena and Chris


Is nostalgia what it used to be?​ A corpus approach to diachronic
change in emotion talk​

Against an interdisciplinary backdrop of rising interest in nostalgia,
this paper examines the framing of the labels
‘nostalgia’ and ‘nostalgic’. We ask whether these terms have actually
been used to refer to the same emotion, or to frame the emotion in the
same way over an extended period of time. We consider this a classic
first step in the investigation of any complex concept insofar as
examining the label(s) provides a point of access and gives insights to
core features and expectations around the construction of that concept.
Using the tools of corpus-assisted discourse analysis we examine two
continuous corpora of British English: Hansard and the Times which cover
the period 1800-2021 and provide a measure of mainstream usage in public
discourse. Although ‘nostalgia’ is first attested in the OED in
1756, and in the Times corpus in the 1870s, it does not gain currency in
either corpus used here until the 1950s. In this talk, we present the
main aspects of the collocational profile. First, we show how the labels
are evaluated and used evaluatively. For example, who is described as
being 'nostalgic', or what metaphors are associated with nostalgia (do
we 'wallow' in it or is that only something others do?). Second, we
identify the time periods with which nostalgia is associated showing how
it is associated with nation and nationalism. Third, we examine what is
framed as being 'nostalgic' and discuss the major pattern of increasing
commodification of 'nostalgia' in public discourse.




Chris Tang 
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and International Education
School of Education, Communication & Society
King’s College London
Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Bridge Wing, Waterloo Road, London
SE1 9NH



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