Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community

Nachdruck 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-017651-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

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Since the early 1970s, the Inuit of Arctic Quebec have struggled to survive economically and culturally in a rapidly changing northern environment. The promotion and maintenance of Inuktitut, their native language, through language policy and Inuit control over institutions, have played a major role in this struggle. Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic Quebec community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French, and English - are spoken. It examines the role that dominant and minority languages play in the social life of this community, linking historical analysis with an ethnographic study of face-to-face interaction and attitudes towards learning and speaking second and third languages in everyday life.

Zielgruppe

Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patrick, Donna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Donna Patrick is Associate Professor at Carleton University, Ontario, Canada.