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Introductory guides

Because foamy custard spans several different academic disciplines and their associated jargon, a little guidance to the more recurrent technical terms may be helpful. Here is an initial selection of topics.

• cognitive linguistics
• context
• cosmologies as 'deep structures'
• deconstruction
• diachronic and synchronic
• hegemony
• historiography
• master narratives
• metaphor, metonym and synecdoche
• orality, literacy and visualisation
• pluralism and polysemy
• 'popular' and 'elite' culture
• post-modernism
• reflexive writing, narrative voices, framing and closure
• revival and continuity in folklore
• semiotics

• Noam Chomsky
• Herbert Marcuse

See also articles such as:

• foamy custard's ingredients The strengths and weaknesses of folklore, mythology, cultural studies and sociology of culture
• an overview of cultural studies
• an overview of folklore theory
• problems with popular perceptions of folklore
• contemporary lore and legend
• an overview of mythological theory
• politics of culture
• making time
• liminality