folkloristicsn.
/fəʊkləˈrɪstɪks/ With singular agreement. The study of folklore; folklore as a discipline or subject of research.
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folkloristics1950
1950 tr. Yu. M. Sokolov's Russian Folklore 3 At the present time, in accordance with the practice of European and Soviet scholars, the term ‘folklore’ is used to designate the material of study; to indicate the science which deals with this material, the term ‘folkloristics’ is employed.
1959 U. Weinreich Yiddish Lang. & Folklore 46 (heading) History of Yiddish folkloristics.
1978 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1977 22 219 The complete title of the book may be taken to include, or at least intersect, those fields commonly known as ‘text linguistics’, ‘folkloristics’ and ‘narratology’.
1985 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 98 331 The following contribution to the folkloristics controversy is intended to shift the discussion..away from a condemnation of the term toward a consideration of terminology.
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