Linda Dégh

**Linda Dégh** (dem bon am for 18 March 1918 an e kpai for 19 August 2014) na pesin wey dey stodi tradishional tori of pipul an e bi professo of Folklore an Ethnomusicology for Indiana Yunivasiti, USA.
Na for Budapest, wey de Hungary dey tek bon Linda Dégh.Deigh popula as pesin wey sabi tradishional tori as e sabi wok on tori wey consain Legend, orijin of tins an how vilej an siti tek stat in Yurope an Nort Amerika.
Dégh wey don bi professo Emerita for Indiana Yunivasiti kolet *"AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award*" in 2014. For 1982, na Dégh bi di presidor of di American Folklore Society.

## How e tek stat life
Na for Budapest wey de Hungary dey tek bon Linda Dégh on March 18, 1920. Dégh kpai on August 19, 2014.Andrew Vázsonyi(1906-1986)  bi e hosband an di marej last for 28 years.
## How e tek go skul an wok
Linda Dégh get e digree from Pèter Pázmány University wey de Hungary.Wen e finish for di yunivasiti, e stat to tish for folklore dipamet in Eötvös Loránd University. For 1965, Dégh stat to tish for Folklore institute wey de Indiana Yunivasiti, Bloomington.By di time wey 1982 go rish, e don bikom a distinguwish professo of Folklore and Ethnomusicology for Indiana Yunivasiti.
Wen Dégh stil dey tish for di Yunivasiti, e fom di jonal *"Indiana Folklore *" in 1968 an na Dégh bi di editor onti di jonal no kom de again.Na for 1980 di jonal stop to dey again an bifor den, di jonal bi di ofisha jonal of Hoosier Folklore Society. Dey stil mek Dégh di presidor of Hoosier Folklore Society in 1967 an 1968.Na for 1971 dey mek Dégh *"Fellow of the American Folklore Society"*.For 1982, Dégh don bi di presidor of di Amerika Folklore Society an for 2004 dey giv Dégh *"Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award*.
Dégh poblish 18 buks an rait ova 200 hatikul an essa.Pipul no wel wel for e wok wit legend an for di wey e dey yuz Ostention  du e wok.For 1983, Dégh an Andrew Vázsonyi rait *"Does the Word 'Dog' Bite?*" "*Ostensive Action:A Means of Legend Telling*" an e tok sey dey fit akt legend apart of mek dey Jos tok am.
Wen Dégh stat to wok on di wok of Ivo Osolsobê, Umberto Eco, Ludwig Wittgenstein an Bertrand Russell, dey tok sey na five ways dey fit divide folklore:
* Ostention
* Pseudo-ostention
* Quasi-Ostention
* False-Ostention 
* Proto-Ostention.
## Awod an Honor
* 1968: American Philosophy Fellowship
* 1970: Guggenheim Fellowship
* 1971: Fellow of the American Folklore Society
* 1984: Fulbright Research Fellowship in Germany
* 1989: American Folklore Society: Centennial Recognition Award
* 1990-91: National Humanities Center Fellowship
* 1991: Hoosier Folklore Society Achievement Award
* 1993: International Society for the Study of Contemporary Legend Outstanding Contribution Award
* 1993: Folklore Fellows of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
* 1995: Sigillo D'Oro, Pitrè-Salomone Marino Prize, Palermo, Italy
* 1995: Ortutay Medal - The Hungarian Ethnographic Society Budapest
* 2002: Chicago Folklore Prize from the American Folklore Society for Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre
* 2003: Choice Outstanding Academic Book for Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre
* 2004: Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award from the American Folklore Society

## Wok wey e du
* Dégh, Linda (1965). Folktales of Hungary. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14024-7.
* Dégh, Linda (1975). People in the Tobacco Belt: Four Lives. National Museum of Man (Mercury Series). ISBN 978-0-405-13331-2. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
* Dégh, Linda, ed. (1978). Studies in East European Folk Narrative. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77544-2.
* Dégh, Linda, ed. (1980). Indiana Folklore: A Reader. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20239-0. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
* Dégh, Linda (1989). Folktales and Society: Story-Telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20526-1.
* Dégh, Linda (1994). American Folklore and the Mass Media. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-11660-4. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
* Dégh, Linda (1995). Narratives in Society: A Performer-Centered Study of Narration. Folklore Fellows' Communications. ISBN 978-9-514-10748-1.
* Dégh, Linda (1996). Hungarian Folktales: The Art of Zsuzsanna Palko. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0-878-05912-6.
* Dégh, Linda (2001). Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33929-4. Retrieved 29 October 2014.