Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit CommunitySince 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. |
Contents
22 The alternative linguistic market | 105 |
The dominant language market | 111 |
4 Inuit mobilization and the rise of Inuktitut | 116 |
41 Inuktitut and the dominant language market | 118 |
Education and standardization | 119 |
43 Institutionalized practices and the symbolic importance of Inuktitut | 121 |
44 Processes of Inuktitut standardization | 122 |
5 Participating in the dominant market | 125 |
11 Geographical and social space in Great Whale River | 24 |
12 Relations between the three communities | 28 |
13 Material and symbolic resources in Arctic Quebec | 30 |
Nunavut Nunavik and land claims | 33 |
21 The founding of Nunavut and Nunavik | 34 |
22 Development of language policy and schooling in Northern Quebec and Nunavut | 40 |
Aboriginal politics in the 1990s | 46 |
4 Conclusion | 50 |
3 History and representation of the Hudson Bay Inuit 16101975 | 53 |
1 History contact and representation | 55 |
Explorers traders and the Inuit | 56 |
12 The Hudsons Bay Company and the hostile Eskimo | 60 |
13 The fur trade and the formation of partnerships | 66 |
The arrival of the missionaries | 68 |
The Inuit and Canada | 76 |
21 The reality of hardship | 78 |
22 Dispelling twentiethcentury Western conceptions | 82 |
23 InuitCree relations | 83 |
24 The early postwar period | 88 |
19551975 | 92 |
3 Conclusion | 97 |
4 Language power and Inuit mobilization | 99 |
Linguistic markets | 100 |
2 Dominant and alternative language markets | 102 |
51 Learning languages at work home and school | 127 |
52 Language markets and job markets | 139 |
6 Conclusion | 151 |
5 Ethnography of language use | 153 |
The distribution of linguistic resources | 154 |
12 Inuktitut and Cree | 155 |
2 Endangered languages and the survival of Inuktitut | 156 |
Selfreports of language use | 160 |
31 The language survey of Kuujjuarapik | 166 |
32 Language choice in Nunavut | 173 |
4 Ethnic boundaries and social space | 174 |
41 Ethnicity social groups and boundaries in Great Whale River | 175 |
5 Social networks in Great Whale River | 177 |
51 Informal family and friendship networks | 179 |
6 Language practices | 182 |
7 Summary and conclusions | 201 |
6 Summary and conclusions | 205 |
2 Implications of the study | 211 |
Notes | 217 |
References | 225 |
Appendix | 243 |
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