Palindromes
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Palindromes belong to the playful and/or purposeful manipulations of linguistic means, i.e. individual letters (or sounds), words, phrases and sentence arrangement (in a mirror-image style) in such a way that the reading has a double direction, from left to right and vice versa. Greek palindromes are attested since Late Antiquity but their number rose during the medieval times serving various functions, mainly ‘para-poetic’ as appendices to other compositions, carrying special meanings or alluding to people, states or objects.
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Palindromes
in Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics OnlineSearch for other papers by Georgios K. Giannakis in
Current site
Google Scholar
(2,629 words)