Leighton C. Peterson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Leighton C. Peterson plays a role.

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Peterson, Leighton C. and Anthony K. Webster 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