Language In Inuit Society

Louis-Jacques Dorais (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2017
Nunavut Arctic College Media (Verlag)
9781896204284 (ISBN)

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A study of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language in Inuit society. Dorais describes the role of language in Inuit society, in relation to both of its linguistic and sociological dimensions.

This volume is a study of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language in Inuit society. Dorais describes the role of language in Inuit society, in relation to both of its linguistic and sociological dimensions.

Language in Inuit Society begins with an overview of several general sociolinguistic analyses (Chapter 1) including a short description of Inuit society since the 1950s (Chapter 2). It then moves to sociological issues properly speaking: linguistic demography and politics (Chapter 3) ; gender, age, and language use (Chapter 4); language contact and translation (Chapter 5); bilingualism (Chapter 6); diglossia (Chapter 7); education (Chapter 8); literature and the media (Chapter 9); language and identity (Chapter 10); The book concludes with some reflections on the future of Inuktitut.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.6.2017
Verlagsort	Iqaluit
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781896204284 / 9781896204284
Zustand	Neuware