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Louis-Jacques Dorais

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).

Books by Louis-Jacques Dorais

Inuit Languages and Dialects

Words of the Inuit

From Magic Words to Word Processing

The Language of the Inuit

Language in NUNAVUT: Discourse and Identity in the Baffin Region

Quaqtaq

Quaqtaq

Language in Inuit society

Inuit language in southern Labrador from 1694-1785 / La langue inuit au Sud du Labrador de 1964 à 1785