Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi teaches at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research focuses on linguistics, language documentation, and the preservation of endangered South Asian languages and cultures.Devika Sharma works in narratology, linguistics, regional literature, and folklore studies. She has written as a freelance contributor for national newspapers, and her research has appeared in reputed journals. She continues to pursue interdisciplinary work across literature, language, and culture.

• Transcription and Transliteration Conventions 1. Introduction: Dogri Folktales as Living Narratives 2. Fieldwork, Translation, and Narrative Analysis of Dogri Folktales 3. Structural Patterns in Dogri Folktales and Other Narrative Traditions 4. A Taxonomy of Dogri Folktales 5. Discourse and Cohesion in Dogri Folktales 6. Corpus-based Analysis of Linguistic Features in Dogri Folktales 7. Dogri Folktales as Moral and Civic Curriculum 8. Conclusion: From Archive to Advocacy Appendices

Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi teaches at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research focuses on linguistics, language documentation, and the preservation of endangered South Asian languages and cultures.Devika Sharma works in narratology, linguistics, regional literature, and folklore studies. She has written as a freelance contributor for national newspapers, and her research has appeared in reputed journals. She continues to pursue interdisciplinary work across literature, language, and culture.

• Transcription and Transliteration Conventions 1. Introduction: Dogri Folktales as Living Narratives 2. Fieldwork, Translation, and Narrative Analysis of Dogri Folktales 3. Structural Patterns in Dogri Folktales and Other Narrative Traditions 4. A Taxonomy of Dogri Folktales 5. Discourse and Cohesion in Dogri Folktales 6. Corpus-based Analysis of Linguistic Features in Dogri Folktales 7. Dogri Folktales as Moral and Civic Curriculum 8. Conclusion: From Archive to Advocacy Appendices

Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi teaches at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. His research focuses on linguistics, language documentation, and the preservation of endangered South Asian languages and cultures.Devika Sharma works in narratology, linguistics, regional literature, and folklore studies. She has written as a freelance contributor for national newspapers, and her research has appeared in reputed journals. She continues to pursue interdisciplinary work across literature, language, and culture.

• Transcription and Transliteration Conventions 1. Introduction: Dogri Folktales as Living Narratives 2. Fieldwork, Translation, and Narrative Analysis of Dogri Folktales 3. Structural Patterns in Dogri Folktales and Other Narrative Traditions 4. A Taxonomy of Dogri Folktales 5. Discourse and Cohesion in Dogri Folktales 6. Corpus-based Analysis of Linguistic Features in Dogri Folktales 7. Dogri Folktales as Moral and Civic Curriculum 8. Conclusion: From Archive to Advocacy Appendices