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Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community

Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community PDF Author: Donna Patrick
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110897709
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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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.