Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary: 31 (American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292739761 ISBN 13: 9780292739765

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 1980

Inhaltsangabe

Eeny, meeny, figgledy, fig.
Delia, dolia, dominig,
Ozy, pozy doma-nozy,
Tee, tau, tut,
Uggeldy, buggedy, boo!
Out goes you. (no. 129)

You can stand,
And you can sit,
But, if you play,
You must be it. (no. 577)

Counting-out rhymes are used by children between the ages of six and eleven as a special way of choosing it and beginning play. They may be short and simple ("O-U-T spells out/And out goes you") or relatively long and complicated; they may be composed of ordinary words, arrant nonsense, or a mixture of the two.

Roger D. Abrahams and Lois Rankin have gathered together a definitive compendium of counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980. These they discovered in over two hundred sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including rhymes from England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Representative texts are given for 582 separate rhymes, with a comprehensive listing of sources and variants for each one, as well as information on each rhyme's provenience, date, and use. Cross-references are provided for variants whose first lines differ from those of the representative texts. Abrahams's introduction discusses the significance of counting-out rhymes in children's play.

Children's folklore and speech play have attracted increasing attention in recent years. Counting-Out Rhymes will be a valuable resource for researchers in this field.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roger D. Abrahams is Hum Rosen Professor (Emeritus) of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lois Rankin is a former managing editor of the Journal of American Folklore.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0292739761
• ISBN 13: 9780292739765
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Herausgeber: Abrahams Roger D.