Problems of Data-management in Folklore Research: Dramatic Discourse as a Case Study

This paper attempts to recognize some basic problems and their possible resolution related to data mining and exploration in the field of folkloristic researches. The present paper is broadly compartmentalized into three sections. First of all, it distinguishes folklore (FL) as an autonomous field of study with its data-based approach clearly differentiated from the other allied disciplines. Secondly, the paper strongly argues in favour of a distinction between Textual and Contextual folklore, specifically in case of data-management (DM) for performing folk art. Thirdly, this paper considers, purely from a theoretical point of view, the theatrical perspective of FL, in order to observe how different semic codes continually interact in constituting multi-layered complex pattern of corpora.