FOLKLORNO GRADIVO IN NJEGOV ZAPIS KOT STIČIŠČE SLOVSTVENE FOLKLORISTIKE IN DIALEKTOLOGIJE. POGLED V PRETEKLOST IN PREDLOGI ZA PRIHODNOST.

Verbal folklore (fairy tales, tales, proverbs and riddles, folk beliefs, etc.) is the literary art of spoken language (or spoken dialect) resulting from contact between carrier and receiver and its aesthetic function. Folklore material has been the point of contact between Slovenian folklore studies and dialectology from the mid-!9th century, which was when material first started to be carefully collected and recorded. This paper chronologically presents, through written sources, the motivations and development of the recording principles for verbal folklore, which is reflected through guidance and instructions as well as in practical work. The author lists the various milestones that have marked different periods in Slovenian folklore studies. These are linked to changes in views of the material, to which the methodology was also adapted. One constant feature of every period is the dilemmas and problems associated with the records and editing of the texts: it seems that dialectologists have no specific problems with the recording of material, while folklorists are required to ensure that the artistic text does not lose its aesthetic elements and the comprehensibility of the rounded unit (i.e. the story) in the rigorous process of dialectological recording. At the end, the author puts forward a number of concrete proposals for closer and more systematic collaboration between the Slovenian folkloristic and dialectological professions, for example combining efforts to acquire and treat in an interdisciplinary way Baudouin's material from the end of the 19th century (held by the St Petersburg archive) and to establish a common repository of field (audio) recordings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]