Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community

ISBN-13: 9783110176513 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 281 str.

Donna Patrick

Opis

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.

"[...] a thorough and fascinating ethnography of language use in the multilingual communitiy in Nothern Quebec.2Shelley Tulloch in: Études Inuit 1-2/2005

Recenzje

"[...] a thorough and fascinating ethnography of language use in the multilingual communitiy in Nothern Quebec.2
Shelley Tulloch in: Études Inuit 1-2/2005

O autorze

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