Начини на разпределяне на реда и ролите в детската игра
Ways of Distributing the Turn and the Parts in the Children’s Game

Summary/Abstract: Various items have been considered in science even nowadays under the term of “Children’s folklore”. This fact influences to a considerable extent the systematization and study of this particular sphere of folklore. The author accepts children’s folklore as a generic term comprising two large but interrelated subgroups: 1) mother’s folklore and 2) folklore of the children’s collective. The counting rhymes present one of the most productive kinds of children’s folklore. They have an extremely important regulative and constructive function in the game. The form of the counting rhyme is flexible and quickly changing, and this brings an additional difficulty for the investigators in formulating certain principles of classification. A suggestion is made in the article that the texts of the counting rhymes be divided on the basis of the ways of counting into three large groups: I) rhymes on the “semantic” principle of counting out; 2) rhymes on the “rhythmic” principle of counting out; 3) rhymes on the “rhythmic-semantic” principle of counting out. The divisions by lot and the forms of counting-out lacking of text remain apart from this classification.

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