Divided as it is, philology is constantly improving through the emergence of new interdisciplinary sciences. One among them is ethnolinguistics. It has taken particularly firm roots in Slavic ...studies, especially with the Russian and Polish schools. While the diachronous researches of Nikita I. Tolstoy in Svetlana Tolstaya reach as far back as Slavic mythology, the Polish school, headed by Jerzy Bartmińsky, flirts with cognitive linguistics and is more interested, through its synchronous approach, in contemporary themes. The present monograph aims to evaluate the work carried out in this field to date and to raise awareness of the new interdisciplinary direction, which may link up the ethnologies and linguistics of different directions.
Short folklore forms are diverse group of short folklore texts~some of these are used in everyday communication and are still alive, others are reserved for specific moments~some of them are ...disappearing from our linguistic and cultural environment. Their structure,function, texture and context of use differ very greatly, as well as their length~it may comprise a single word (eg. greetings), one sentence (proverbs, riddles) or a short text (defense, prayer). Book systematically and comprehensively shows the origin, structure and classification system, and aesthetic structures of the most representative short folklore forms: working exclamations, greetings, curses, proverbs, riddles, incantations and prayers.
The monograph ('Folkloristic Portraits from 20th Century. Till the constitution Slovenian folkloristics') is chronical and logical continuation of the first book Folk portraits of three centuries. ...The author deals with 14 personalities who were active in the first half of the 20th century, ie. till the constitution of Slovenian folkloristics: J. Polivka, M. Murko, I. Koštial, I. Grafenauer, F. Kotnik, J. Kelemina, J. Glonar, F. Stele, J. Glazer, P. Zablatnik, V. Möderndorfer, L. Zupanc, J. Dolenc, M. Matičetov.
The scientific monograph ('A Written Record of Live Storytelling') brings the basic theory and methodological procedures for field documentation, transcription and research of narrative folklore. It ...addresses threeContext, Texture and Transcoding of Stories Told Live by Tina Kravanja from Bavšica” brings the basic theory and methodological procedures for field documentation, transcription and research of narrative folklore. It addresses three levels of a folklore event – context, texture, and text – in the narration of folklore stories. Each level, especially context, is further enhanced with the theoretical findings derived from the author's own field work, e.g. defining storytelling meeting as alternation of stories, told in more artistic expression, and of linking texts told in an everyday. Linking texts are important cohesive ties of storytelling event as whole. The book also deals with defining of six roles of the participants who influence the course of storytelling event, etc. The monograph also attempts to solve the problem of putting down oral stories onto paper. To preserve as much information as possible, it proposes transcription as well as transcoding with the help of accurate phonetic transcription, concurrent notes on the texture, and a description of the context. The methods are explained with the phonetic transcription of 22 stories told by Tina Kravanja from Bavšica during a single field visit.
The volume ('Interdisciplinarity of Literary Folklore') is divided into the following sections: Circumstances (with chapters: The spatial Aspect of Literary Folklore, The historical Aspect of ...Slovenian literary Folklore, The sociological Aspect of literary Folklore), The Man (with chapters: The anthropological Aspectof literary Folklore, The psychological Aspect of literary Folklore, The therapeutical Aspect of literary Folklore) and Supernality (with chapters: The mythological Aspect of literary Folklore, The theological Aspectof literary Folklore, The Art historical Aspect of literary Folklore). At the End is the suggest: Tales as Starting Points for local History Education.