The song-poetry performed by the Arandic people of central Australia is characterized by parallelism of sound, form, and meaning in both auditory and visual modalities. Parallelism …
This study explores the hitherto under-researched role of women within the Gàidhlig storytelling traditions of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland between c. 1850 and c. 1980 …
M Frog, W Lamb - Weathered Words: Formulaic Language …, 2022 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
1. Background A deep-rooted and enduring division exists between approaches to formulaic language in oral poetry and in other forms of human discourse. This gap emerged subtly …
EE Heide, KBP FF - The Ecology of Metre, 2016 - helsinki.fi
This article examines the interaction of language in relation to metrical form in kalevalaic epic poetry. It presents and elaborates the concept of a linguistic multiform as a …