77Academic Research in Educational Sciences VOLUME 2 | CSPI CONFERENCE 2 | 2021
Innovative Technologies in Teaching Foreign Languages and Learner Assessment in Online Education
Chirchik State Pedagogical Institute of Tashkent region
THE LINGUASTYLISTIC ROLE OF ALLITERATIONS IN
LINGUISTICS
Zebo Meliyevna Nizomova
English language teacher Jizzakh state pedagogical institute, Uzbekistan E-mail address: zebo [email protected]
ABSTRACT
In this article, we determined some important points and the significance of alliteration as a stylistic device on the example of works of English literature, proverbs and sayings which is used in everyday language, poetry, literature, and business writing. We focused on alliteration as a stylistic technique of repetition of consonant sounds in artistic speech, which enhances its imagery and expressiveness.
Keywords: stylistics, alliteration, stylistic device, poetry harmony, rhyme, literature.
INTRODUCTION
Alliteration is a stylistic literary technique in which nearby words repeat the same initial consonant sound. Alliteration is used to make writing more rhythmic (in poetry, for example) or more memorable (in a business document, for example). Alliteration refers to only the beginning sound of the word, while consonance refers to any part of a word. Alliteration is used for emphasis or to make a sentence more pleasing to the ear. It is used in everyday language, poetry, literature, and business writing. Alliteration is a stylistic technique of repetition of consonant sounds in artistic speech, which enhances its imagery and expressiveness [6].
Alliteration was "cultivated" in the poems of the symbolist poets, Balmont, as a representative of the symbolism movement, achieved the highest skill in using alliteration to achieve an inextricable connection between poetry and music. He was considered a virtuoso in achieving poetic musicality. It should be noted that the use of stylistic devices, in particular alliteration, in Balmont's works is harmonious. The musicality of the verse is achieved by unartificial and unintelligible ways, not through consonance for the sake of consonance. The hidden consonances are much more important than the consonances lying on the surface.
METHODOLOGY AND LITERATURE REVIEW
Such harmony is born by itself and more often than not, because the words that best convey mood and meaning are phonetically close by virtue of some unknown
laws. The poet's skill, therefore, lies in the choice of words that, both phonetically and in meaning, correspond to the idea and mood of the poem. In domestic sources, alliteration is most often viewed as "symmetric repetition of homogeneous consonant sounds" in the speech stream, which is opposed to assonance - "symmetric repetition of homogeneous vowels" [1, p. 27]. Alliteration based on the repetition of a consonant or groups of consonants at the beginning of the words of one utterance does not stand out as an independent group.
As for the English-speaking tradition, the definition of the word "Alliteration" in Webster's dictionary is characteristic: "The repetition usu. initially of a sound that is usu. a consonant in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and wooly, threatening throng) "[4]. The definition of this term in the Oxford English Dictionary is also indicative: "The commencing of two or more words in close connection, with the same letter, or rather the same sound"[3] Thus, alliteration in the English-speaking linguistic tradition is distinguished by:
1) predominantly the initial position of the repeated sound in the word;
2) the distinction between alliteration and assonance is not as rigid as in Uzbek linguistics.
Alliteration in English is deeply rooted in the tradition of folk art. The literary form of ancient English poetry was different from the modern literary forms of poetry. In this poetry, the main points of the verse were rhythm and alliteration. Each significant word in a line of folk songs, legends, which was under stress, began with the same combination of sounds. Alliteration in ancient Saxon poetry played the same role as rhyme plays in modern poetry. Alliteration can be called an initial rhyme: it is not the last syllable of a word that rhymes, but the initial sounds of the word [2, p. 34].
In modern English, alliteration means not only the repetition of the initial sounds, but also the sounds in the middle of the word. The folk tradition, as you know, is always vitally stable and the technique of alliteration, as an artistic form of folk poetry, has remained in the English language as a proven means of artistic and emotional impact on the reader. Unlike the Uzbek language, where alliteration did not have such deep roots in folk art, in the English language alliteration is widely used as an artistic and stylistic device not only in poetry, but also in fictional prose. Alliteration can be seen in newspaper headlines and literary titles, for example: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; School for Scandal; A Book of Phable and Phrase.
Alliteration is of particular importance to the English language because AngloSaxon verse was alliterative. She performed the function of a kind of metronome of the piece - unstressed syllables were pronounced at approximately the same time intervals: quickly, if there were a lot of them, and slowly, if there were few of them. In such conditions, the beginning of the stressed syllable was the most important part of the word, and alliteration emphasized precisely these functionally significant points of the verse.
Let's turn to the English literature for examples of the use of alliteration. The Anglo-Saxon epic poem "Beowulf" is one of the most striking examples of works in which the technique of alliteration is often found.
Translated into modern English, "Beowulf" (Modern English) looks like this: Stone-bright the street: it showed the way to the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistened hand-forged, hard; On their harness bright the steel ring sang, As they strode along in mail of battle, and marched to the hall. [6]
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, alliteration is one of the oldest stylistic means in English poetry. As you know, Old English versification was completely alliterative, that is, it was built on the obligatory sound repetitions in certain places in the poem.
Alliteration is one of the main ways of organizing the sound flow in instrumentation. In English, alliteration is widely used in folklore, proverbs, sayings, stable phrases. Alliteration is most often used in poetry, where it creates a certain melodic and emotional effect. The phonetic significance of alliteration is based not on the meanings of the words in which they are used, but on the perception of the physical properties of sounds. Words of any language have not only semantic and morphological, but also phonetic motivation, that is, not only the words themselves, but also the sounds of words carry some information, some hidden meaning.
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