Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry
Edited by Katherine Lahti, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 5:3 (2014) vi, 185 pp.
Anthony K. Webster
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anthony K. Webster plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2014 Introduction: Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 335–340 | Article
2014 Rex Lee Jim’s ‘Mouse that Sucked’: On iconicity, interwoven-ness, and ideophones Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 431–444 | Article
This article explores the ways that Navajo poet Rex Lee Jim uses ideophony in one of his poems. I argue that Jim’s use of an ideophone in its myriad forms (from nominalized noun to independent ideophone to verb stem) creates an interwoven-ness across lines that evokes an iconicity of sound and… read more
2013 Speech play and language ideologies in Navajo terminology development Pragmatics 23:1, pp. 93–116 | Article
In this article we combine a concern with speech play and language ideologies to investigate contemporary Navajo terminology development. This article presents some recent cases of lexical elaboration in context, and argues that neologisms in Navajo are often fleeting, shifting, or humorous… read more
2008 “Plaza ‘góó and before he can respond…”: Language ideology, bilingual Navajo, and Navajo poetry Pragmatics 18:3, pp. 511–541 | Article
This article suggests that much of the use of the Navajo language in contemporary Navajo written poetry, especially English dominant poetry, serves as an icon of proper Navajo usage. It is a purist view of the Navajo language. Navajo poetry is implicated, even if tacitly, in a discourse of… read more
2006 From Hóyéé to Hajinei : On some implications of feelingful iconicity and orthography in Navajo poetry Pragmatics 16:4, pp. 535–549 | Article
This paper examines the use of co-switching in Navajo written poetry. I look specifically at the use of code-switching from English dominant poems to Navajo. I outline three general semantic domains that are most commonly code-switched from English to Navajo: 1) emotions; 2) mythic characters; and… read more