Necessity of preserving things

Necessity of preserving things

metafolklore

 

·         folklore about folklore
develop claims about folklore that may or may not be true but you focus in on the reason why it is believed?

 

Paremiology

·         study of proverbs

 

paremiological minimum

 

·         in your given folk group there's an expectation that you'll recognize certain proverbs - it's not a strict list but there's a list where a folk group member will recognize their proverbs

 

Memorates

 

·         Stories said to be first or immediately second-hand accounts (therefore claiming authenticity) of uncanny encounters, or contacts with famous people or with important historical events, often near-misses with disasters. Favorite topics are ghosts, aliens, the Titanic...

 

idiosyncratic response

 

·         a one-off response, if they say something but no one else in their folk-group says it, maybe their lying - they're screwing with your research, or maybe they're just individualistic, treat it as a statistical outsider

 

Parascripture

 

·         authenticity is suspect - not like Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John - there's a gospel of James (brother of Jesus) / gospel of Nicodemus (harrowing of hell) - everything about angels comes out of parascripture

 

Liminal Space

·         Yard is liminal space. It's in between. It's neither. Undefined. It's negotiable. The sidewalk - kinda your yard, kinda public space. Hotels are liminal space - they're residential but not home.

 

ephemera

 

·         things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time
internet memes

 

Phonological Inventory

 

·         some dialects make sounds that other dialects do not! Saying "Baaay" - accent - a pattern of phonological - shibboleth

 

 

Dysphemism

 

·         different ways to say the same thing. can be police, vulgar, clinical, children's

 

Vernacular phrasal display

·         performance genre. WHAT. Toasts

 

Boontling

 

·         Language created by children that caught on to the town in Boonvile CA, started as a joke but now that's how they talk seriously. It's a tourist attraction. Put on an accent for money/commodification.

 

folk etymology

·         when people alter a word because they have the wrong idea of where it came from - it has to result in a change in word/story or belief from where a saying came from

 

Holophrases

 

·         misunderstanding phrases to believe they're just one word
1. "godizgrate" - god is great
2. "Fiwereu" - if I were you

 

Proverbs vs. Proverbial

 

·         it's not ironclad. A proverb is a complete sentence or implies a complete sentence. Proverbial is a piece of a sentence, it's a phrase, it's fixed.

 

salvage ethnography

 

·         the necessity of preserving things, insist folklore doesn't change (that's wrong, it's its very nature that it changes)