Oral Poetics Research On Arimpil’s Jangar

Oral poetics is an emerging research orientation that exists within the research framework of oral tradition and poetry criticism. In this work based on the oral formulaic theory the author analyses the texts of Arimpil’s Jangar from the perspectives of oral poetics and tries to state his viewpoint about oral formulaic theory and its functions in Mongolian epics. This research work consists of an introduction part, the main part (4 chapters), a conclusion and a bibliography.The introduction part presents the reason for choosing the topic, source materials, previous studies, research goals and objectives, theoretical and practical significance of the research work and research methods.In the first chapter while discussing the historical process of development of oral formulaic theory and its main perspectives the author also considers about the main concepts such as the formula, the theme, story patterns comparing them with the other concepts of oral literature. Moreover by investigating the issues related to the usage of oral formulaic theory the author states his viewpoint about the application of these concepts.In the second chapter Arimpil’s Jangar was analyzed from the perspectives of formulaic structure, formulaic diction, and formulaic usage. The formula of Mongolian epics is not bound to the poetic meters (metrical structure) as they do in Greek and Yugoslav oral epics. Therefore the author discovers that principles of using the formula and rule of economy are closely related to the application of the structure that is based on the syntactic structure of Mongolian language. Furthermore, the author argues that the distinctive characteristics of Mongolian epics have helped the creation of the rhythm, one of the main parts of formulaic diction and it is closely related to the formulaic structure and the principles of application.In the third chapter the features of repetition of the themes, structure, change during the usage, and syntactic structure of texts in Arimpil’s Jangar were observed. The repeated use of themes of Jangar is in some extent goes with the oral formulaic theory but its appropriateness of the form of the expressions is not related to the choice of the expressions that were formed by the rhythm. We argue that the repetition occurs because of the consistent characteristics of expressions in Jangar, distinctive style of singing of Jangarists, their experience and skills.About the issues related to the usage of themes of Arimpil’s Jangar, they are more consistent and the change is made in a particular extent during singing. However the author claims that the syntactic structure of themes are not mainly adding style as the researchers had proved before, it is basically subordinated and parallel structure. The author raised his view that this kind of structure would be one of the unique structures to form the texts of Jangar epic singers.In the fourth chapter based on the analysis of the other chapters of Arimpil’s Jangar the story patterns that Arimpil uses for the epic singing and the recreation through epic sinning process were analyzed. The main story pattern that appears in episodes of Arimpil’s Jangar, the original story pattern that builds up the epic were summarized and their change, rules of connection were analyzed and it was approved that the story pattern as a unit of Jangar singing plays an important role in formulation of oral texts. It was found out that the rules of changes of story patterns are definitely related to the usage of epic singers, and it is also connected to the logics of the story telling.Finally, by analyzing Arimpil’s Jangar from the point of view of oral poetics the author approves that Jangarch Arimpil creates his epics using the epic units such as formula, the theme, and the story pattern and it constructs a unique features because of the distinctive style and tradition of Mongolian epics and the personal style of singing of Arimpil himself. For instance, connection of formula and rhythm of Jangar and its rules of economy, syntactic pattern and structure of themes are different than it is in oral formulaic theory. Moreover, according to the usage of the story pattern the structure of epic singing is not consistent pattern but it is more dynamic structure that is closely related to the singing style of epic singers.