Verbal Artistry in Southern Paiute Narratives: Reduplication as a Stylistic Process

Abstract

This article examines stylistic uses of reduplicated nouns and verbs in Southern Paiute narrative performances. Traditional Paiute storytellers in the San Juan andKaibab communities of north‐central Arizona employ reduplication to index simultaneously narrative structure and specific referential meanings. The analysis of this creative and multi‐indexical process demonstrates the importance of examining the verbal artistry of devices like reduplication in any language study.

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