Social Sciences
6 years ago

Holiday postcards evolve: Themes, text, language shift from 1950s to 2010s.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Tracing changes in thematic structure of holiday picture postcards from 1950s to 2010s
Kyoko Sugisaki, Nicolas Wiedmer, Marcel Naef, Heiko Hausendorf, Michael Piotrowski

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Holiday picture postcards have changed in themes from the 1950s to the 2010s. Researchers analyzed over 1,000 postcards and found that themes, text functions, and language patterns have evolved over the decades.

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