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When asked whether all texts are translatable, Roman Jakobson answered: “yes, to a certain extent” (qtd. in Hatim and Munday 16). Poetry in particular is notoriously difficult to translate due to its complexity and intricacies of form and meaning, on the
Creangă Maria-Teodora
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Alliteration in W. Shasha’s Zihlabana nje Ziyalamba
This paper examines the use of alliteration in Welile Shasha’s poetry in Zihlabana nje Ziyalamba. This aspect is chosen as Shasha uses it very intensively in his poetry.
Zilibele Mtumane and Ruth Nozibele Tabu
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The Symbolic Power of Place Names: The Case of the River Olše/Olza/Łolza in Northeastern Czechia
It is not uncommon for place names to become symbols of national identity. Once in that position, such names often play a significant symbolic role in national and local politics.
Přemysl Mácha
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Phonostylistic means of car brand image creation
The current paper presents an overview of phonostylistic devices (alliteration, assonance, rhyme, onomatopoeia) most commonly used in slogans and taglines of the modern car industry.
Inna Zabuzhanska
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Grammatical and stylistic particularities in Livy’s work [PDF]
In this article we have conducted a number of grammatical and stylistic analyses on representative fragments from the monumental work of Livy.
Ana-Maria POPESCU POPA
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Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman”
William Langland’s 8000-line fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman uses an alliterative rhyme scheme inherited from Old English in which, instead of a rhyme at the end of a line, at least three out of the four stressed syllables in each line begin with ...
Peter Sutton
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Żywotność formy językowej Witolda Gombrowicza w literaturze ostatnich dekad
Starting with the thesis that Gombrowicz’s unique “linguistic form”, which is a stylistic equivalent of form as an anthropological-philosophical category, we claim that it has become an important point of reference, a kind of stylistic stamp or matrix ...
Ewa Sławkowa
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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POET’S BIOGRAPHY AS A LITERARY NARRATIVE (ON THE LESS KNOWN WORK OF A. E. KULAKOVSKY) [PDF]
The paper covers the special analysis of one of the less known works by the first Yakut poet – A.E. Kulakovsky. The letter to “V.F. Artamonov”, available to us as a manuscript copy, despite being an epistolary form of “written” origin, is essentially a
Pokatilova Nadezhda V.
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The article covers the sound organization of Ivan Franko’s poetic works from the collection “Iz dniv zhurby” (“From the Days of Sor- row”, 1900). The aim of the article is to determine the functional fea- tures of assonances and alliterations in ...
Olga NASTENKO
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