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Folklore: EJF 64
The 64th issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore (http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol64/) contains researches in the field of linguistics and folkloristics, which are dedicated to categories and their applications essential in terms of culture, map the cognitive backgrounds of language use by different peoples, and highlight the lingvo-folkloric or lingvo-mythological interconnections. Such a selection was substantiated by a need for interdisciplinary confluence, but it was rendered possible by the 60th birthday of Professor Urmas Sutrop, a renowned linguist and cultural researcher.
The articles focuses on: children’s spontaneous sayings, and proposes the theoretical mechanisms of humour they are based on (by Piret Voolaid), provides a closer look into spontaneous transmedia narratives and processes based on giant lore (by Mare Kõiva and Andres Kuperjanov), analyse in detail the tale types The Encoded Message and The Big Bull (by Yuri Berezkin and Evgeny Duvakin); gives an overview of the etymology of the word jumal ’god’, its meanings, and its role as a linguistic unit fulfilling different communication goals (by Anni Jürine, Karl Pajusalu, Renate Pajusalu, Ilona Tragel, and Ann Veismann).
Three articles explores the usages of colours and colour terms in different languages and genres: cognitive organisation of colour terms in our mental lexicon (by Mari Uusküla and David Bimler), colour entrenchment in Middle-School (by Jody L. Sandford), a system of colour symbols in Mari folk songs (by Natalia Glukhova).
Liisi Piits explores collocational patterns of the noun ‘man’, which reveal social attitudes and stereotypes of age, gender, and behaviour. Hille Pajupuus’s team introduces how to predict the possible effect of a written text on the reader and gives a description of the creation of an automatic identifier of the polarity (positivity-negativity) of Estonian texts, which is independent of domain and of text type (by Hille Pajupuu, Rene Altrov, and Jaan Pajupuu).
Ekaterina Velmezova compares the articles about the Estonian language in the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, published in 1934, 1957, and 1978, and draws attention to the ideological influences.
