That work was a major influence on the creation, in 1976, of the Traditional Oral Literature subject at the Faculty of Arts and Literature, and key to the publication, the same year, of the Guia de Recolha de Literatura Popular (Guide to Collecting Folk Literature) and, in 1978, of the work Para a História da Literatura Popular Portuguesa, grounded in the understanding of this literature as one that 'runs between the people, the entire literary work that passes through it, with much or little delay, recent or ancient [...] anonymous and that which has a name, given orally or in writing. [Which] does not require, let it be repeated, the stamp of time, the traditional seal, but that has been or is authentic, living, functional." (Para a História da Literatura Portuguesa, 1978, 8).

In the early 1980s, along with Maria de Lourdes Belchior and Lindley Cintra, he recovered the work of Leite de Vasconcelos between 1887 and 1943 and created the Nova Série of the Revista Lusitana magazine, structured around the themes of Portuguese philology and ethnology.

In 1982, when he was seventy years old, he requested his retirement, maintaining, however, a constant presence in the Faculty of Arts and Literature and continuing his research. His retirement did not, therefore, represent a departure from teaching.

In 1984 he travelled to Brazil at the invitation of the Federal University of Bahia, to teach a course on Portuguese Folk Literature and in 1985 he travelled to Cape Verde, where he taught a course on cultural anthropology. The following year he was in charge of arranging the first Portuguese-French Colloquium on 'Popular - Traditional - Oral Literature', held at the Portuguese Cultural Centre in Paris and in 1987 continued that momentum with the organisation, at the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, of a Colloquium on 'Portuguese Folk Literature and Theory of Oral - Traditional - Popular Literature'.

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