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Social Science Native American Studies

Language in NUNAVUT: Discourse and Identity in the Baffin Region

by (author) Louis-Jacques Dorais & Susan Sammons

Publisher
Nunavut Arctic College
Initial publish date
Jan 2002
Category
Native American Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896204604
    Publish Date
    Jan 2002
    List Price
    $18.95

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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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