Alliteration in culture [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Roper.
Roper, Jonathan, 1969-
2011
P311 .A45 2011eb
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Title
Alliteration in culture [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Roper.
ISBN
9780230305878 (electronic book)
9780230232648
0230232647
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 253 p.) : ill.
Call Number
P311 .A45 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
414/.6
Summary
Alliteration is all around us. From lovers of tongue-twisters to the work of political speech-writers, many make use of the trick of beginning words with the same sounds. What effect does alliteration have? What history does it have? What are the terms we might best use to describe it? And when might people wish to avoid it? This book gathers together an international group of specialists to answer these and other questions using examples drawn from their own research which fall in four continents and in a variety of periods over the last thousand years. Here you will find information on the names of Swedish people and English fields, poetry in Somali and in British Sign Language, and in what way Obama's Inaugural Address can be said to be 'average'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Roper, Jonathan, 1969-
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Introduction: Key topics in the study of alliteration / J. Roper
Love, Silver and the Devil: Alliteration in English Place-Names / J. Harte
Alliteration in English-language Versions of Current Widespread European Idioms and Proverbs / F.C. Williams
Alliteration in Inaugural Addresses: From George Washington to Barack Obama / H. Halmari
Purposely to Please the Palates of Pretty Prattling Playfellows / P. Cowdell
Dealing Dooms: Alliteration in the Old Frisian Laws / R.H. Bremmer Jr
Restrictions on Alliteration and Rhyme in Contemporary Swedish Personal Names with an Old Germanic Retrospect / L. Hagasen
Alliteration in the 'prymskvioa' and in Chamisso's German translation / L. Naiditch
Alliteration in Iceland: From the Edda to Modern Verse and Pop Lyrics / K. Arnason
Alliteration Involving /s/ in the History of Icelandic poetry / R.I. Aalsteinsson
Alliteration in Mongol Poetry / G. Kara
Around Analysis and Hypothesis of Hungarian Alliteration / V. Voigts
Alliteration in (Balto- ) Finnic Languages / Frog & E. Stepanova
Alliteration in Somali Poetry / M. Orwin
Alliteration in Sign Language Poetry / M. Kaneko
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