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 language | English |
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Journal | Digital Humanities Quarterly |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Netherlands
- nationlism
- text mining
- topic modeling
- discourse
- banal nationalism
- newspapers