Historia mówiona a etnolingwistyka
Spoken history and ethnolinguistics

Summary/Abstract: The article lists the characteristics of spoken history, which link it with dialectology and folklore studies. It also presents elements through which spoken history approaches ethnolinguistics. The author reviews the origin of the spoken history research, its methods and relationship to the subject matter and the goals of ethnolinguistics. She recalls the American beginnings of the field from the mid-20th c., as well as certain European, including Polish, initiatives. Three centres of this kind can be found in Lublin alone: the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre, Radio Lublin and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. Another problem is the role of narration studies in relation to spoken history. A “narrative turn” present in many disciplines can also be recognized in ethnolinguistics.

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