AN INSIGHTFUL STUDY ON RIVER CULTURE IN FOLK-SONGS OF LOWER MEKONG DELTA, VIETNAM

Authors

  • Nguyen Thi Nhung Lecturer, Department of Vietnamese Linguistics and Literature, Can Tho University, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejls.v3i2.377

Keywords:

folk-songs, Mekong Delta, river culture

Abstract

Doing research on folk literature in relation to folklore has been used effectively by folklore experts around the world. Recently, in Vietnam, this research direction has also been becoming more popular and gaining practical values in finding the material and spiritual cultural values, as well as behavioral cultural values with the natural environment which are hidden in folk literature, including folk-songs. Folk-songs in the Lower Mekong Delta regions are spiritual products of people living in the land with interlacing rivers and canals. It is the characteristic that contributes to creating specific features for folk-songs of new land. By applying some methods such as statistics, analysis, synthesis, and comparison, this article presents some features of river culture in the folk-songs of the Lower Mekong Delta regions to distinguish them from Vietnamese folk-songs in general.

 

Author Biography

  • Nguyen Thi Nhung, Lecturer, Department of Vietnamese Linguistics and Literature, Can Tho University, Vietnam

    Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhung, from Humanities & Social Sciences (SSSH), Can Tho University (CTU), Vietnam, is currently a lecturer in literature and culture, Department of Vietnamese Linguistics and Literature. She obtained her PhD from Ha Noi University of Education, Vietnam in 1998 in the Vietnamese Language and Culture Program. Her main research interests are literary theory issues, languages, intercultural communication, journalism, learning and teaching Vietnamese literature, curriculum design, and testing and assessment and professional development. She can be contacted at ntnhung@ctu.edu.vn.

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Published

2022-11-13

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022)

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