Riddle Of The RiddleFirst Published in 2005. The true folk riddle of oral traditions that have been rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth in the last hundred years is one of the most ancient threads of culture. One of the smallest genres of verbal culture—usually under a dozen of words, it is an intensely articulated utterance. It is eccentric and as such breaks every logical mould. This volume presents results of a study driven by the sheer intellectual curiosity of the author. |
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... linguistics, or, more precisely, that kind of discipline which did not care to learn how language actually works but chose to rule by legislation from above, from postulates of theory. With the triumph of Noam Chomsky«s generative ...
... linguistics, or, more precisely, that kind of discipline which did not care to learn how language actually works but chose to rule by legislation from above, from postulates of theory. With the triumph of Noam Chomsky«s generative ...
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... linguistic phenomena were replaced by inventive formalisms, which were indeed working toward the narrow task of ... linguistics which actually were not aimed that broadly. The key role was played by the notion of binary opposition ...
... linguistic phenomena were replaced by inventive formalisms, which were indeed working toward the narrow task of ... linguistics which actually were not aimed that broadly. The key role was played by the notion of binary opposition ...
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... linguistics is invalid for the study of the riddle, but certainly not in the blunt form of formalist logical ... linguistic reality, that is, both its form and meaning. Thus, the functional approach must work in conjunction with ...
... linguistics is invalid for the study of the riddle, but certainly not in the blunt form of formalist logical ... linguistic reality, that is, both its form and meaning. Thus, the functional approach must work in conjunction with ...
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Contents
What is the Folk Riddle from Oral Tradition? | |
Genus and Species | |
The True Riddle | |
The True Riddle and Its Environs | |
Classification and Taxonomy | |
The PostTaylorian Perspective 9 Classification According to Archer Taylor | |
The Nexus of Morphology and Function | |
Modes of Teasing and the Psychology of Riddling | |
In the Wings of Taylors Classification 16 The Eidetic Core of the Folk Riddle | |
The Genetic Code and the Mechanisms of Morphological Change | |
A Review of the Figurative Properties of the Folk Riddle | |
The Poetic Form of the Folk Riddle | |
Final Notes | |
Summary | |
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aimed ancient archaic archetypal Aristotle«s authentic folk riddle bipartite bylina classes collection compact complex conception core cultural defamiliarization defined descriptive metaphor domain don«t Edmund Leach enigmatics ethnologists explicit answer expression field figure of concealment folklore folklorists formal Freud functional structure genetic code genre Georges & Dundes grotesque guess heterogeneity Humpty Dumpty ibid implicit subject implicit target incongruity inner form innocent recorded kind king«s kinship language Lehmann-Nitsche lexical motifs linguistic literal descriptions logical Maranda meaning metaphoric object mode morphological nature notion observation offers oral tradition paradigm Petsch phenomena poetic presents proper question recorded answer riddle describes riddle from oral riddle studies riddle’s riddle«s description riddle«s functioning Rigveda ritual Russian riddle scholars semantic predilections sexual content sexual symbolism Shklovsky signifies structural definition stylistic substitution symbolic structure taboo Taylor Taylor«s classification texts theory thing true folk riddle true riddle verbal versions Wolfgang Schultz