Nostalgia kui semiootiline protsess: analüütiline lähenemine tähendusloomele ja mälule
Nostalgia as a Semiotic Process: An Analytical Approach to Meaning-Making and Memory

Summary/Abstract: This article explores nostalgia as a semiotic phenomenon where the conscious awareness of temporal irreversibility becomes a meaningful sign. The aim is to demonstrate how ‘nostalgia’ can function as a productive analytical tool in contemporary cultural, memory, and heritage studies. I propose one possible approach by aligning Fred Davis’s three-stage model of nostalgia with Aleida Assmann’s categories of memory forms, and Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s concept of the symbolic universe, thereby conceptualizing nostalgia as a process of meaning-making.

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