Mining Public Discourse for Emerging Dutch Nationalism

Hermione Giffard, M.J.A. van den Bos

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Abstract

Historians have argued that nationalism spread from elite groups to larger populations through public media, yet this has never been empirically proven. In this paper, we seek to find expressions of nationalism in Dutch newspaper discourse in the late nineteenth century by deploying innovative methods and tools for text mining in large textual repositories. These include defining sub-corpora and looking at linguistic changes over time. The absence of bombastic nationalist rhetoric in Dutch national newspapers demonstrates that nationalism in the late nineteenth century was much more subtle than the literature tells us based on elite discourse.
Original languageEnglish
JournalDigital Humanities Quarterly
Volume10
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Netherlands
  • nationlism
  • text mining
  • topic modeling
  • discourse
  • banal nationalism
  • newspapers

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