The Dual Role of Metonymy in Navajo Prayer  

Oleh:

Field, Margaret ; Blackhorse., Taft

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 44 no. 3 (Mar. 2002), page 217-230.
Fulltext: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 217-230.pdf (1.51MB)

Isi artikel

This article discusses the relationship between the aesthetic and performative functions of Navajo ritual language. We argue that the contiguity- based trope of metonymy is used for two purposes: to objectivize or entextualize the sacred language involved, and to affect reality by creatively indexing speci- fic aspects of the ritual context. Illustrations are taken from two transcriptions of Navajo self-protection prayers recorded in the 1940s.

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