Discourse and Context: Beyond the Morphology of Folktales.

The study investigates the role of context builders in meaningful formation of Dogri folktales. Context determines meaning, and when language users employ it in folktales, the meaning is understood through intuition, native knowledge, and interpretation, further supported by grammatical structures. The traditional folklorists study tales--they provide interpretation or analyze their grammatical structures, but in the process one of them is compromised. However, this paper endeavors to strike a balance between the two when it analyzes Dogri folktales. The focus is to analyze folktales and their narrative structure while closely studying the interrelated events that lead to the formation of their discourse. For that, contextual information comes to the forefront, and the roles of cohesive units like discourse markers, topic words, creativity, and others become quite important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]