Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community / Edition 1

by Donna Patrick

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110176513
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	06/19/2003
Series:	Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , #8
Edition description:	Reprint 2013
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

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

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