De emotionalisering van de samenleving? Een diachrone verkenning van emotionaliteit in de Nederlandse politiek en media (1945-1989)

TY - JOUR

T1 - De emotionalisering van de samenleving?

T2 - Een diachrone verkenning van emotionaliteit in de Nederlandse politiek en media (1945-1989)

AU - Lange, van, Milan

AU - Futselaar, Ralf

PY - 2021/12

Y1 - 2021/12

N2 - A historiographical consensus seems to exist regarding the development of an ‘emotion culture’ in the Netherlands in the second half of the twentieth century. This process of emotionalisation involves an increase in the public expression and manifestation of emotions from the 1970s onwards. This period is often contrasted with the immediate post-war years. This article asks whether Dutch society has indeed become more emotional in the public sphere. Using computational text analysis and four different digitized historical datasets, the manifestation of emotions in historical language is systematically and diachronically investigated. The assumption that emotionality is reflected in an increase in the use of emotional words is fundamental to our approach. This study did not find empirical evidence for the existence of a period of silence and concealment of emotions, nor for a strong increase in emotional manifestations from the 1970s onwards. On the contrary we conclude that the period 1945-89 experienced stability and continuity in the public manifestation of emotions.

AB - A historiographical consensus seems to exist regarding the development of an ‘emotion culture’ in the Netherlands in the second half of the twentieth century. This process of emotionalisation involves an increase in the public expression and manifestation of emotions from the 1970s onwards. This period is often contrasted with the immediate post-war years. This article asks whether Dutch society has indeed become more emotional in the public sphere. Using computational text analysis and four different digitized historical datasets, the manifestation of emotions in historical language is systematically and diachronically investigated. The assumption that emotionality is reflected in an increase in the use of emotional words is fundamental to our approach. This study did not find empirical evidence for the existence of a period of silence and concealment of emotions, nor for a strong increase in emotional manifestations from the 1970s onwards. On the contrary we conclude that the period 1945-89 experienced stability and continuity in the public manifestation of emotions.

KW - Digital history

KW - emotion mining

KW - History of Emotions

KW - epistemology

KW - methodology

KW - emotion lexicons

KW - Contemporary History

KW - statistics

KW - parlementaire geschiedenis

KW - emotiegeschiedenis

KW - digital history

KW - digital humanities

KW - bronkritiek

KW - text mining

U2 - 10.5117/TVG2021.4.006.LANG

DO - 10.5117/TVG2021.4.006.LANG

M3 - Artikel

SN - 0040-7518

VL - 134

SP - 626

EP - 648

JO - Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis

JF - Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis

IS - 4

ER -