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Publication details [#51275]

Webster, Anthony K. 2009. The poetics and politics of Navajo ideophony in contemporary Navajo poetry. Language & Communication 29 (2) : 133–151.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aesthetics | ideology | ideophone | poetics | political discussion

Language as a subject

Navajo

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper deals with Navajo sound symbolism within its social and political settings, and in particular with Navajo ideophony as a strong, important poetic device in Navajo aesthetics, which also contests Western linguistic ideology depreciating such expressive forms.