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Nostalgie po dobách nedávno minulých
Nostalgia for the recent past

Author(s): Věra Dvořáčková
Subject(s): Lexis, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český

Summary/Abstract: The article is focused on the word-forming and lexically-semantic characteristics of the expressions ostalgia/ostnostalgia, westalgia, eastalgia, yugostalgia/yugo-nostalgia and Titostalgia/Tito-nostalgia, on explaining the causes that led to the creation of their denotates and the method used to adapt these nouns in the Czech language.

  • Issue Year: 99/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 218-223
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Czech