A conference about alliteration

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       Alliteration in Culture

Conference Begins On: 01/19/2007
Sponsoring Institution: The Folklore Society
Conference Will Be Held at: London, XX


Alliteration in culture

a Folklore Society conference
at the Warburg Institute, London,
January 19 2007.

http://www.folklore-society.com/alliteration.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

Alliteration can be found in a broad range of linguistic forms, from  
old Germanic verse to modern advertising jingles, from Finnic  
lullabies to traditional proverbial comparisons, from the names of  
paired oxen to tabloid headlines and contemporary football chants.  
Alliteration is however a rather underexamined topic. This conference  
aims to address the phenomenon of repeated initial sounds in a variety  
of languages and linguistic forms.
To this end, papers are sought from specialists in a wide range of  
disciplines, including medieval literature, neurolinguistics, metrical  
studies, folkloristics, rhetoric, onomastics, etc., to address topics  
such as:
the psychology of the perception of sound-patterning,
the varieties of alliteration,
alliteration as mnemonic device,
alliteration versus rhyme, and alliteration as a complement to rhyme,
how alliteration features in metrical systems,
how alliteration features in naming systems,
why some languages/periods/authors favour alliteration,
strategies for avoiding alliteration,
why and when alliteration is replaced by other sound-patterning,  
notably rhyme,
the relationship between alliteration and stress,
the relationship between alliteration and grammar,
alliteration and imprecision,
alliteration and sound-symbolism,
alliteration and parallelism,
alliteration and archaicism,
eye-alliteration, and alliteration hidden by orthography,
alliteration in hieratic language, and alliteration in colloquial language,
alliteration in proverbial phrases,
alliteration in legal phraseology,
amongst other topics.

Please send titles and abstracts (75-150 words) of paper proposals
by post:
Dr Jonathan Roper,
Natcect,
9 Shearwood Road,
University of Sheffield,
SHEFFIELD,
S10 2TN,
England.

or by e-mail to: j.roper at shef.ac.uk

before the deadline of 30th September, 2006.



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