Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Communityv

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.

About the author

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

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Donna Patrick
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9783110176513
• ISBN: 978-3-11-017651-3
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 23 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w ill., 3 Maps
• Series: Language, Power and Social Process; Language, Power and Social Process; Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]; ISSN; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics