THE LINGUISTIC-DISCURSIVE DIMENSION OF NOSTALGIC MEMORY IN THE SCOPE OF COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE

Abstract

Nostalgia is remembrance with emotional attachment, a complex and universal feeling. Because it is lived and shared through signs in the most diverse spheres of human interaction, it can be understood as something deeply linguistic-discursive. Thus, nostalgic utterances were used as study objects for the scientific deepening on the discursive dimension of the feeling. This article, in particular, aimed to explore the pattern of nostalgic manifestation in relation to the compositional structure of the genre. Therefore, a notoriously nostalgic corpus was used which has 106 Revista Ferrovia editorials published between 1935 and 2017. From this, the theoretical framework of Mikhail Bakhtin's Genres of discourse and the psychosocial theory of Constantine Sedikides were used in a connected way. In the light of the theory, the analyzes were made and enabled the identification and description of certain pattern of manifestation, thus broadening the understanding of the phenomenon in its linguistic-discursive scope.