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- Title
Rex Lee Jim's 'Na'asts'ǫǫsí' On iconicity, interwoven-ness, and ideophones.
- Authors
Webster, Anthony K.
- Abstract
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 sense. I begin by describing something of the grammatical structuring and uses of Navajo ideophony. I then turn to a discussion of contemporary written Navajo poetry that uses ideophony and especially Jim's poetry. I follow this with a discussion of the use of Navajo ideophony in literacy education and in competing views about the appropriateness of using ideophony in Navajo written literature.
- Subjects
JIM, Rex Lee; POETS; IDEOPHONE; POETRY (Literary form); NAVAJO poetry; NAVAJO literature
- Publication
Pragmatics & Society, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 3, p431
- ISSN
1878-9714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ps.5.3.07web