FOLK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Alan Dundes, Pragmatics

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The third, and most currently held (at least within academic circles), understanding of folk is that of a folk group. Alan dundes writes that folk" can refer to any group of people whatsoever who share at least one common factor (dundes 1965, 2) In his introductory text, the dynamics of folklore, barre toelken similarly describes a folk group as any group of people who share informal vernacular contacts that become the basis for expressive, culture-based communications (1996, 56) The smallest is probably two people in an ongoing relationship, such as life partners, close friends, or co-workers. An example might be members of an occupation, like high steel workers. A high steel worker may share work techniques, terminology, and perhaps strategies and approaches to work life with other high steel workers, even if s/he has never worked with, or met, each of them individually.

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