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Mariann Domokos

Folklore and Mobile Communication. SMS and Folklore Text Research

The paper intends to investigate mobile communication as a medium conveying folklore texts as well as the folkloric features of messages sent via mobile communication (SMS) and attempts to systematize folklore genres in SMS. Short message sending service belongs to secondary or electronic literacy, which in contemporary practice of communication is almost as popular as e-mail correspondence. Preliminary issues and problems of textual analysis arising from a folkloristic point of view are the following: Which wellknown folklore genres emerge in SMS texts? Are there any new genres, and if so, in what respect do these genres differ from traditional ones? The corpus of texts on which the research project is based consists of three types of text collections. In practice, SMS does not constitute a genre, as the SMS corpus used consists of heterogeneous texts, among which folkloric and non-folkloric texts can be found. Some of the SMS texts can be assigned to traditional types of folklore genres (jokes, proverbs, rhymed greetings related to festive occasions, etc.), whereas others such as funny-tricky texts or reduced chain letters comprising only the initial and closure units seem to refer to new genres.

Fabula, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0014-6242
Volume: 48, 04/2007
Seiten: 50 - 59

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