Social Science Native American Studies
Language in NUNAVUT: Discourse and Identity in the Baffin Region
- Publisher
- Nunavut Arctic College
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2002
- Category
- Native American Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896204604
- Publish Date
- Jan 2002
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
The first thorough study of discourse practices undertaken among Canadian Inuit, this book explores language usage in three communities of the Baffin region of Nunavut. Over five years a team of researchers and students enquired about which languages were spoken by adults and children, Inuit and Qallunaat (non-Inuit), in various contexts.
About the authors
Louis-Jacques Dorais has researched Inuit culture, language, and society since 1965. From 1972 to 2011, he taught anthropology at
Université Laval in Quebec City, and is now Professor Emeritus. In 1991, he and Leah Otak conducted interviews on knowledge and identity in Igloolik for a project on the social role of Inuit teachers. Among other titles, Dorais has published a linguistic description of Inuktitut as it is spoken in Igloolik (Iglulingmiut Uqausingit: The Inuit Language of Igloolik NWT, 1978), as well as a general introduction to the Inuit language (The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic, 2010).
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