OD TEXTU K SPOLOČENSKÉMU FENOMÉNU. PREMENY VZŤAHU TÉMA - METÓDA POČAS PRÍPRAVY DIPLOMOVEJ PRÁCE

The aim of the contribution is to clarify the process of writing diploma thesis on ecology of folk tales of settled Roma population in Gemer region. In the part 'the journey to the theme' the author describes working on definition of the research topic, which has several phases: specification of the studied phenomena, identification of space and time framework of the research and the outline of target group. In the part 'the journey to the method' he characterises the problems caused by conflicts: 1. the topic broadly conceived in terms of space and society - outstanding narrator, 2. the romance of old fairy tales - ecology of texts (recent material) - that have been solved by the shift of interest from the text to narration as a social phenomenon.