1. ForAnthony Woodbury, interwovenness is one part of a larger pattern of“form-dependent expression” based “on a perception of non-arbitrariness in the relationship between form and function”(1998,257). Iconicity and indexicality would be the most obvious examples of this. Intralingual punning is an example of language-internal form-dependent expression. Note, however, that interlingual puns are also linguistic forms that are deeply implicated in the expressive economy of local groupness—but with a twist, because they are interwovenacross languagesthrough phonological iconicity.
2. Notice, by the way, how the entire edifice ofemicandeticbased on the distinction betweenphonemicandphonetic(seePike1967) collapses when we realize that some Navajos are concerned not with the phonemes of a language, but with the phones of the language, interested not in phonemic contrasts, but in phonological iconicity.