晚近的口头传统研究主要关注全球化时代人类保持文化多样性与坚持可持续发展所面临的许多重要问题。学者们强调不同文化背景和多学科之间的对话,从文化遗产学、口头传统研究、信息科学、传播学等多个领域,对濒危语言与口头传统进行跨学科研究,其根本目的就是要创造环境来保存和保护我们人类共同的遗产。史诗学的议题包括口头文学的创编、记忆和传递,口头传统的采录、归档、整理和数字化,濒危语言抢救和民俗学档案馆建设等。上述领域预示了相关学科发展的未来走向。学术界普遍感到世界上绝大多数口头传统和语言不同程度地处于濒危境地,出于这种共识,许多机构开始着手搜集和保存这些口头传统。全球化和现代化时刻威胁着文化和语言的多样性,在全球范围内展开大规模的濒危语言和口头传统抢救工作成为迫在眉睫的事情。随着新技术革命的迅速发展,信息化建设正在向哲学社会科学各个领域逐步渗透,形成多学科综合发展的崭新局面。近20年来,世界范围内的口头传统研究与数字技术相结合,形成了富于创新的领域。对濒危语言与口头传统进行跨学科研究的作用就是要创造环境以保存和保护人类共同的遗产。 Recent oral tradition studies have focused on many of the important issues facing humanity in maintaining cultural diversity and adhering to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Scholars stress different cultural backgrounds and interdisciplinary dialogues. The interdisciplinary research on endangered languages ​​and oral traditions in many fields such as cultural heritage studies, oral tradition studies, information sciences, and communication studies aims at creating Environment to preserve and protect the common heritage of our humanity. Epic topics include the creation of oral literature, memory and transmission, oral traditional transcription, filing, collation and digitization, the rescue of endangered languages ​​and the construction of folklore archives. The above areas indicate the future development of related disciplines. It is generally felt in academia that the vast majority of oral traditions and languages ​​in the world are at risk to varying degrees. With this consensus, many institutions are beginning to collect and preserve these oral traditions. Globalization and the moment of modernization threaten the diversity of cultures and languages. It is an imminent matter that large-scale endangered languages ​​and oral traditions are rescued worldwide. With the rapid development of new technology revolution, information construction is gradually penetrating into all fields of philosophy and social science, forming a brand new situation of multidisciplinary comprehensive development. In the past 20 years, oral tradition research and digital technology in the world have combined to form an innovative field. The role of interdisciplinary research on endangered languages ​​and oral traditions is to create the environment to preserve and protect the common heritage of mankind.