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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community

Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community

Patrick, Donna

Hardcover

Series: Language, Power and Social Process [Lpsp], Book 8

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110176513
ISBN13: 9783110176513
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jun 19 2003
Pages: 281
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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