Abstract
Using the example of texts from the poetry book of Carmela De Santis, a representative of the linguistic minority of the Salentine Greeks (Italy), the paper analyses the specifics of the literary creation in the contemporary minor languages and its socil-cultural context of the linguistic and folklore revitalization. The article aims to demonstrate the necessity for a combination of literary analysis with the social sciences field methods, when working with texts of that kind. The study of the collection showes that the author uses elements of local folklore in her poems: formulas or whole stanzas borrowed from folklore texts (which are mostly present in the final part of the poems). In addition, the structure and narrative features of the collection’s texts are influenced by two folklore genres that are well known to the author: the prayer and the festive toast. Moreover, the context of the emergence of certain texts by Carmela De Santis is determined by the sociocultural situation of the linguistic and folklore revitalization that has taken place in the region over the past several decades and cannot be understood without studying it.
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