Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community

Donna Patrick author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:19th Jun '03

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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.

ISBN: 9783110176513

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 534g

281 pages

Reprint 2013