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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016 The paper deals with the linguistic and poetic analysis of the formula 'X maþelode' ('someone said') in comparison to other ways of introducing direct speech in the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf.
Natalya Yu. Gvozdetskaya
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Filologia GermanicaIn Germanic alliterative verse the fundamental unit of meter and rhythm is the half-line. Editions of older Germanic alliterative poems now usually record this feature in their typographic design: the poetry is lineated and coordinate half-lines are ...
IAN CORNELIUS
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2019 This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
- Frog
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İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı DergisiIn this study, we investigate a newly identified Old Uyghur alliterative verse translation of the Samantabhadra-caryā-praṇidhāna, preserved among the Turfan manuscripts housed at the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Tursunjan Imin
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
GlossaThis article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks.
Nelson Goering
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Odisea, 2017 Gr/edigne Gudhafoc and d/et Gr/ege Deor: Una revisión del tema de las Bestias de la Guerra (57-65h) en las traducciones de la Batalla de Brunanburi. La entrada correspondiente al año 937 de la Crónica Anglosajona narra los hechos que tuvieron lugar en ...
Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso
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Using Texts as Megaphones: The Power of African American Readers Hearing Themselves in Books
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 3, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT This article highlights the power of authentic children's literature to affirm African American English as a legitimate, rule‐governed linguistic system and elevate it as a source of cognitive strength, cultural richness, and academic potential.
Ramona T. Pittman +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 967-982, September 2026.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry
Manuscript and Text CulturesPoetry in early Germanic vernaculars exhibits variations on a metrical form predicated on a pattern of alliterating stressed syllables linking two halves of a line (in contrast to syllabic metres in which scansion requires a fixed number of syllables ...
James Parkhouse
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