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The concept of children's folklore .

What should be understood by children's folklore? What is the meaning of the term "children's folklore"? There is no single point of view on these issues in science. So, for example, V.P. Anikin refers to children's folklore "the creativity of adults for children, the creativity of adults, which eventually became children's, and children's creativity in the proper sense of the word" . This opinion is shared by E.V. Pomerantseva, V.A. Vasilenko, M.N. Melnikov and others. As a rule, the mentioned researchers begin to characterize children's folklore by considering works created by adults and performed by them for children (lullabies, pestles and nursery rhymes ). [6].
Other scholars include only those works that are created and performed by children themselves as children's folklore. Thus, the well-known researcher of children's folklore G.S. Vinogradov, objecting to the attribution to children's folklore of "creativity of adults for children", wrote: "Usually this group of verbal works is attributed to children's folklore. There are few grounds for such an attribution. Children's folklore consists of works that do not include the repertoire of adults; this is a collection of works by performers and the listeners of which are the children themselves.The group considered, as the work of adults for children and constituting the repertoire mainly of adults, should be isolated: this is the creation of a mother and nursery, this is maternal poetry, or the poetry of nurturing. The point of view of G.S. Vinogradova seems to be absolutely fair. It is impossible to attribute to children's folklore lullabies, pestles and nursery rhymes , which were created and performed only by adults, but they were not only not created by children, but never performed. Children's folklore is primarily works created and performed by children themselves. It differs from the folklore of adults both in its content and in its artistic norm.
At the same time, it should be noted that the works of adults also penetrate into children's folklore. Children are almost always present when adults perform folklore, often assimilating its individual works. At a certain stage, some traditional genres fade away, disappear in the folklore of adults; pass on to children, live as an organic component of the children's folklore repertoire. Changing, these works acquire signs of children's folklore and become an organic part of the children's folklore repertoire. [1]

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