WERKELN MIT WÖRTERN. Einige Bemerkungen zu alliterierenden Überschriften in der Zeitschrift DER SPIEGEL

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Title in English	Fidgeting with words. Some remarks on alliterating titles in the journal "Der Spiegel"
Authors	ZEMAN Jaromír
Year of publication	2004
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik - Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity - řada germanistická (R)
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Arts
Citation
Field	Linguistics
Keywords	alliteration; poetic function of language; formal criteria of alltitaration; journalism; ironical commentary
Description	The article deals with titles often containig alliteration in the journal "Der Spiegel". This poetical means was used (as is well known) in Germanic poetry and Old Germanic laws. It does not properly fit the journalistic texts decreasing the information value of the titles.
Related projects:	A contrastive study of non-fiction (expository) texts