Small folklore forms are stored in memory as a unit with figurative meaning, their own rhythm and rhyme. That is why they are appropriate for different modifications. Modifications of proverbs and sayings are as common as proverbs, sayings itself. On the one hand we can follow the creating of the “new proverbs”, where the wit and the language capacity of the creator (though he/she is not known) is seen; but on the other, funny modifications of the traditional proverbs are almost more common as the traditional proverbs in Slovene everyday language. One of the youngest modifications are made for commercial purpose.Copy-writers are using small folklore forms to create more memorable commercial, specifically rhythm, rhyme, melody, partly words, form etc. of the proverb/saying/riddle. In the article, we present the modifications of small folklore forms in Slovene language and we question the purpose of the use of small folklore forms for the commercials.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 33645101The life story is a subject of study within various disciplines. In ethnology, biographies are the primary medium of communication and a substitute or replacement for tradition. That which was previously passed on by grandparents direct to their grandchildren, through natural communication, can now be passed on to imaginary descendants through technology-based communication, through writing or through audiovisual means. But the author is interested precisely in the life story that is passed on via natural communication, in the manner of literary folklore. Thus in her article she focuses on the suitability of the Slovene labelling and generic clasification of what is known as »memorat«, in other words first person personal recollection based on personal experience (André Jolles). These narratives from life suppress the classic folklore genres and have become one of the most widespread categories of contemporary literary folkloristics in prose. A memorat can be, but need not be the first step in the forming of a fabula and a preliminary step in the process of the creation of a tale. From a folkloristics point of view the author also explores the question of the relation between (1) life story and legend, (2) lite story and fairy tale, and (3) life story and tale. There follow a folkloristics test – in relation to the folklore event: texture, context – as to whether the life story and memory-based narrative belong in literary folkloristics at all.
D.04 Initiative to set up a new research area in Slovenia
COBISS.SI-ID: 32951085Amateur literature is a concept in vertical classification for works that fall between literary folklore and literature. From the holistic standpoint, both literary and ethnological analytical tools are employed in the study of such texts; for this reason one hesitates to simply classify them as works of literary ethnology. This particular book, which opens a new research area at the interstices of ethnology and philology, contains a number of relevant passages in which one can observe that individual authors refer to formulations of past experiences and from the literary standpoint these non-canon authors express themselves in a formulaic manner that can evolve into sayings. For example: “We are small, but we make ourselves even smaller!” (p. 73); “The young man makes plans, the old man evokes memories.” V. Kurnik recorded more than 3000 sayings; however, it is not clear whether they are of his own making or if they were passed on through tradition (pp. 309-417). This collection is enriched by the recording/transcription of the thoughts of A. Lapanja (pp.189-200) as well as those of Slomšek (for example J. Jager, p. 421).
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
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