title: Multimodality of ostalgia language: A study of Instagram* accounts about the GDR
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metadata.value: Zhiliuk, Sergei A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-13T13:04:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-13T13:04:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022
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metadata.value: Zhiliuk S. A. Multimodality of ostalgia language: A study of Instagram* accounts about the GDR. German Philology in St Petersburg State University, 2022, iss. 12, pp. 237–251. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2022.112 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2022.112
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39093
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metadata.value: Ostalgie, positive thinking about the former GDR, has been studied by literary
  theorists and critics who deal with the fiction by authors born in the GDR. The present
  article addresses multimodality of memoires: the language which Instagram* users
  speak when talking about Eastern Germany. Topic significance is justified by the continued
  search for self-identification by many Germans who turn to their past years.
  Methods used for the study include usual linguistic ones: continuous sampling, componential
  analysis, description, and comparison. Some of the accounts about the GDR
  are studied in the present article. It focuses on the comments of followers who share
  their experiences and minds about what they see. Emojis play important role in the expression
  of their feelings and opinions. There are four semantical types of comments.
  Two of them are a direct response to the image or authors’ descriptions (evaluation of
  what is seen or read), the other two are a recollection and a comparing recollection
  when a user compares life today to that in the GDR with the latter seeming to be
  better than now. The most popular lexical units used by commenters are Zeit, Heimat,
  friedlich, ruhig, schön, gut, vermissen reflecting the most important and positive
  aspects for the Eastern Germans. They include an explicit evaluation (friedlich, ruhig,
  schön, gut) and an implicit one (Zeit, Heimat). The word Zeit is of high significance
  and marks positive evaluation of the past (sehr schön das war unsere Zeit; waren keine
  schlechten Zeiten). These features demonstrate a positive attitude by users from the
  former GDR towards the past time and not towards the state itself; they evaluate not
  the country but their own historical experience full of positive aspects. * Meta is determined as an extremist organization in Russian Federation.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: German Philology in St Petersburg State University;Issue 12
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: multimodality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Internet discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Internet comment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lexical and semantical analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ostalgia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: GDR
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Multimodality of ostalgia language: A study of Instagram* accounts about the GDR
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metadata.value: Article
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