Alliteration in Culture

By Jonathan Roper

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230232647
• ISBN13: 9780230232648
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"