Volume 8, Issue 1

நாட்டார் கதைகளை ஆவணப்படுத்துவதில் அமைப்பியல் ஆய்வின் வகிபங்கு (The Role of Structural Analysis in Documenting Folk Tales)

Author

கோபாலப்பிள்ளை குகன், சிரேஷ்ட விரிவுரையாளர், தமிழ்க் கற்கைகள் துறை, கிழக்குப் பல்கலைக்கழகம், இலங்கை. | Kopalappillai Gukan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Tamil Studies, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.

Abstract

In the Sri Lankan Tamil context, many folk tale studies are incomplete due to several reasons. Often, the research area is not clearly defined. In addition, different versions of the same folk tale are not given proper attention. Most studies describe the content only based on personal interest or enjoyment, rather than using a scientific method. Because of these reasons, such studies do not reach clear or reliable conclusions. Therefore, from the initial stage of collecting folk tales, it is necessary to use folkloristic theories to classify and study them systematically. In particular, structural theory provides a clear framework for scientifically classifying collected folk tales. When a folk tale exists in more than one version, structural analysis helps to compare these versions in a meaningful way. Through this method, the internal structure and content of the tale can be clearly explained. This study focuses on the classification of a folk tale titled “The Proud Queen,” collected from the Batticaloa region...

Keywords: Folk tales, Variant, Syntagmatic Analysis, Motifeme, Allomotifeme

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