Alliteration in Culture [electronic resource] /
Roper, Jonathan.author.
Roper, Jonathan,1969-
Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Key Topics in the Study of Alliteration; 1 Love, Silver and the Devil: Alliteration in English Place-Names; 2 Alliteration in English-Language Versions of Current Widespread European Idioms and Proverbs; 3 Alliteration in Inaugural Addresses: From George Washington to Barack Obama; 4 Purposely to Please the Palates of Pretty Prattling Playfellows; 5 Dealing Dooms: Alliteration in the Old Frisian Laws
6 Restrictions on Alliteration and Rhyme in Contemporary Swedish Personal Names with an Old Germanic Retrospect7 Alliteration in the Þrymskviða and in Chamisso's German Translation; 8 Alliteration in Iceland: From the Edda to Modern Verse and Pop Lyrics; 9 Alliteration Involving /s/ in the History of Icelandic Poetry; 10 Alliteration in Mongol Poetry; 11 Around Analysis and Hypothesis of Hungarian Alliteration; 12 Alliteration in (Balto-) Finnic Languages; 13 Alliteration in Somali Poetry; 14 Alliteration in Sign Language Poetry; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains.
Language and languages-Style.
Comparative linguistics.
Poetry.
Historical linguistics.
Semantics.
Stylistics.
Comparative Linguistics.
Poetry and Poetics.
Historical Linguistics.
Semantics.