The Folklore Buried in Dictionaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8932055 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Hopkins (0000-0001-5521-7408, Twitter (United States), corresponding author), Jonathan Roper (0000-0001-8807-2276, Twitter (United States)) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-154 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2023.2176993 |
| OpenAlex | W4378841187 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Dictionaries are an unexpected, and underused, source of folklore data. In this introduction to a selection of articles addressing the virtues and peculiarities of such a repurposing of dictionaries, the authors raise some general issues and briefly sketch the wider intellectual and social historical background to the compilation of dictionaries, especially in Europe in recent centuries, that explains the presence of folkloric information. They also introduce the articles that follow
Archaeology · Folklore · Repurposing · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sketch · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |