Detailansicht
Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] 8
ISBN/EAN: 9783110176513
Umbreit-Nr.: 3751179
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: XII, 269 S., 6 s/w Illustr., 3 Karten
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 19.06.2003
Auflage: 1/2003
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- Donna Patrick is Associate Professor at Carleton University, Ontario, Canada.