Alliteration in Culture [Hardcover]

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.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 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.Hag?sen Alliteration in the '?rymskvi?a' and in Chamisso's German translation; L.Naiditch Alliteration in Iceland: From the Edda to Modern Verse and Pop Lyrics; K.?rnason Alliteration?Involving /s/ in the History of Icelandic poetry; R.I.A?alsteinsson 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 Index

'This is a unique and richly rewarding account of alliteration which establishes its cultural and linguistic interest, and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars.' - Nigel Fabb, Strathclyde University, UK

'This collection offers a broad view of alliteration, one of the most widely shared cohesive and creative applications of human language. This cross-cultural poetic and rhetorical universal is explored in its anthropological, socio-cultural, poetic, stylistic, and linguil3Ê