Nostalgia em editoriais da Revista Ferrovia: um estudo linguístico-discursivo

Abstract

The feeling of nostalgia marks with undeniable profusion the human being’s relationship with the present. It expresses a longing about some good aspect from the past meanwhile demonstrates a desire to return to that moment. Due to the fact that nostalgia is inherent to the human being, it permeates the men’s utterances. Hence it is relevant to understand this feeling by the speech point of view. Considering this, the monography had as study object the nostalgic speech. More specifically, such topic was analyzed from a corpus which includes Revista Ferrovia editorials published between the year of 1935 and 1982. Altogether they are 87 editorials and this is possibly the first time the Revista Ferrovia will be subject to some linguistic-discursive study. The study is based primarily on the Bakhtin’s theory of speech genres (cf. 2011). It states that the formulated utterances reflect specific conditions of each sphere of human activity, either through its content, through its verbal style or its compositional construction. Consequently, the nostalgia emerges in speech and reveals itself as an important feature of the railway collective. Taking the aforementioned theory into consideration, the overall objective was to observe the relatively stable form of nostalgia manifestation in the editorials speech. Moreover, it was possible to establish links between the use of nostalgia and human development of the nostalgic being.