Four Linguistic Departure Points for Folk Literature Studies
Verse or prose,folk literature is presented in language and its text research,consequently,is linguistic research to a large extent.Studying folk literature from linguistic perspective,like studying general linguistics,can depart from four aspects:phonetics,semantics,grammar,and words.Many cur-rent theories and methods regarding folk literature studies can be,as a matter of fact,categorized as sub-fields of linguistics.
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