THE PRAGMATIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO FOLKLORE

Agolli, Rriollza (2024) THE PRAGMATIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO FOLKLORE. EDUCATION Journal of Educational Research, 6 (11-12). pp. 101-106. ISSN 2671 - 3276

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Abstract

In 1846, William Thoms introduced the word folklore, and since then arguments about the true definition of the word have been widely developed (Dundes, 1965). Folklore includes all knowledge, meanings, values, attitudes, assumptions, feelings, and beliefs transmitted in traditional forms orally or by customary examples. The variability in the context of a community and the functional and stylistic features of folklore materials, at a time of social change (Hendricks, 2019), reveal the universal character of the connection of folklore with pragmatic and sociolinguistics. The sociolinguistic method of description and analysis (Gumperz, 2003) of the linguistic features of the folklore text, in social contexts, shows that its structure can be integrated into the linguistic structure, while Pragmatic Theory (Lawal, 2012) identifies two main structures: the structure surface and background texture. The main structures consist of six levels. The first level is linguistic and is located in the surface structure. The linguistic level is the level at which utterances are produced: phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and semantic features. The other levels are further divided into contexts and competencies symmetrically. Taking these into account, the different approaches to the study of the folklore text as a linguistic object are easily distinguishable. The object of this paper is the pragma-sociolinguistic approach to proverbs. The study of the formal features of proverbs expands, including the social contexts in which they are used and the participants in the acts of communication. Our paper relies on the pragma-sociolinguistic theory of Adegbija 1982, revised in 1987. This theory posits that the pragma-sociolinguistic concept (cf. 1982) refers to the various speech contexts facilitating effective communication. The concept of pragma-sociolinguistics means historical, personal, environmental, sociocultural features and linguistic aspects of all factors related to the context in which a certain discourse occurs.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social context, pragmatic and sociolinguistic theory, language level, proverbs, folklore.
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Education
Depositing User:	Unnamed user with email zshi@unite.edu.mk
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2024 12:14
Last Modified:	03 Oct 2024 12:14
URI:	http://eprints.unite.edu.mk/id/eprint/1798

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