Abstract :
Whatever your field of study, it is occasionally necessary to go back and assess the situation or get out a balance in order to determine the routes and forms of future works. As is known the folklore studies in Turkey are approaching centenary years, and this is a significant threshold or a time frame which needs accounting. There is obviously an alliance about the definition of the concept of the “anonymous folk literature in Turkey. However, it is impossible to pronounce the same thing for productions and sorting out the products that covered by this definition. In some studies the productions which belong to fields of sufi and ashik literatures are evaluated outside of “folk literature”, hence they are individual. As a result of this, the anonymous folk literature was seen equivalent to the term of folk literature. But that view has changed over time, and the anonymous folk literature, as it should be, was placed in a position sub-branch of “folk literature”. During one hundred years voluminous different opinions have been propounded about the types which have been included in the anonymous folk literature. An increase in the number of the types has been observed over time, but haven’t been achieved an alliance of the classification. Generally, classifications which are taken into account the structural characteristics of the types have incorrect and incomplete points. That’s why in this article, it has proposed a new classification of the types of anonymous folk literature, and then has passed to an assessment about studies which relevant to oral and discoursal types of this literature in Turkey. Chiefly, the studies which regarding to oral and discoursal types that are going from vernacular towards to national line realized with text-centered theory and methods. The majority of these studies, there are compilations, identifications and classifications. The scarcity of analysis is a remarkable point. And to the implementation phase could not be accomplished at all.
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anonymous folk literature , description , selection criterion , oral anddiscoursal types
