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Publication details [#57346]
Webster, Anthony K. and Leighton C. Peterson. 2013. Speech play and language ideologies in Navajo terminology development. Pragmatics 23 (1) : 93–116. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This paper argues that Navajo neologisms constitute often casual, shifting, or humorous sociocultural practices that reflect individual agency, intimate grammars, local language ideologies and an unexpected continuity in an assumed swift language shift context.