Dictionaries as sources of folklore data
By: edited by Jonathan Roper
Series: Folklore Fellows' communications -- 321; FF communications -- no. 321.
Publisher: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9789514111570
Subjects: Folklore; Research; Methodology; Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Description: "[T]here is much folklore data buried in dictionaries, whether compiled by those who were folklorists or by those who were not. Thus dictionaries represent a notable source of folklore data supplementary to the already familiar field, archival and monographic sources. This book attempts to take the measure of such data with a set of studies ranging from Greece to England, and from Newfoundland to Trinidad and Tobago. An introductory essay discusses the location of folklore within dictionaries. Then the first of the three main sections of the book deals with the role folklore has played in the formation of certain remarkable dictionaries. This is followed by a series of case studies of the folklore content of particular dictionaries. And the book closes with a set of studies that address the methodological issues that using dictionaries as folklore sources raises."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.