Alliteration in Culture

1. Introduction: Key Topics in the Study of Alliteration
Jonathan Roper

2. Love, Silver and the Devil: Alliteration in English Place-Names
Jeremy Harte

3. Alliteration in English-Language Versions of Current Widespread European Idioms and Proverbs
Fionnuala Carson Williams

4. Alliteration in Inaugural Addresses: From George Washington to Barack Obama
Helena Halmari

5. Purposely to Please the Palates of Pretty Prattling Playfellows
Paul Cowdell

6. Dealing Dooms: Alliteration in the Old Frisian Laws
Rolf H. Bremmer

7. Restrictions on Alliteration and Rhyme in Contemporary Swedish Personal Names with an Old Germanic Retrospect
Lennart Hagåsen

8. Alliteration in the Þrymskviða and in Chamisso’s German Translation
Larissa Naiditch

9. Alliteration in Iceland: From the Edda to Modern Verse and Pop Lyrics
Kristján Árnason

10. Alliteration Involving /s/ in the History of Icelandic Poetry
Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson

11. Alliteration in Mongol Poetry
György Kara

12. Around Analysis and Hypothesis of Hungarian Alliteration
Vilmos Voigt

13. Alliteration in (Balto-) Finnic Languages
Frog Stepanova, Eila Stepanova

14. Alliteration in Somali Poetry
Martin Orwin

15. Alliteration in Sign Language Poetry
Michiko Kaneko

Avainsanat: Linguistics, Stylistics, Comparative Linguistics, Poetry and Poetics, Historical Linguistics, Semantics