Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community

Name: Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community
Brand: De Gruyter Mouton
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Donna Patrick(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 10. Juni 2013

XII, 269 Seiten

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Intro
Acknowledgements
1 Language use in Arctic Quebec: Towards a political economic analysis
1. Introduction
2. Doing Aboriginal research
2.1. Collecting data
2.2. Historical data
3. The study of language choice: Theoretical assumptions
3.1. Investigating language choice
2 Contextualizing the research site
1. The research site
1.1. Geographical and social space in Great Whale River
1.2. Relations between the three communities
1.3. Material and symbolic resources in Arctic Quebec
2. Aboriginal politics in Canada: Nunavut, Nunavik, and land claims
2.1. The founding of Nunavut and Nunavik
2.2. Development of language policy and schooling in Northern Quebec and Nunavut
3. Setting the scene: Aboriginal politics in the 1990s
4. Conclusion
3 History and representation of the Hudson Bay Inuit, 1610-1975
1. History, contact, and representation
1.1. Early history: Explorers, traders, and the Inuit
1.2. The Hudson's Bay Company and the "hostile Eskimo"
1.3. The fur trade and the formation of partnerships
1.4. Nineteenth century: The arrival of the missionaries
2. The twentieth century: The Inuit and Canada
2.1. The reality of hardship
2.2. Dispelling twentieth-century Western conceptions
2.3. Inuit-Cree relations
2.4. The early post-war period
2.5. Settlement, wage labour, and modernity: 1955-1975
3. Conclusion
4. Language, power, and Inuit mobilization
Part 1: Linguistic markets
1. Language markets and linguistic capital
2. Dominant and alternative language markets
2.1. The dominant market
2.2. The alternative linguistic market
Part 2: The dominant language market
3. Competition between English and French
4. Inuit mobilization and the rise of Inuktitut
4.1. Inuktitut and the dominant language market
4.2. Inuktitut language use: Education and standardization
4.3. Institutionalized practices and the symbolic importance of Inuktitut
4.4. Processes of Inuktitut standardization
5. Participating in the dominant market
5.1. Learning languages at work, home, and school
5.2. Language markets and job markets
6. Conclusion
5. Ethnography of language use
1. Who speaks what: The distribution of linguistic resources
1.1. English and French
1.2. Inuktitut and Cree
2. Endangered languages and the "survival" of Inuktitut
3. Language survey data: Self-reports of language use
3.1. The language survey of Kuujjuarapik
3.2. Language choice in Nunavut
4. Ethnic boundaries and social space
4.1. Ethnicity, social groups, and boundaries in Great Whale River
5. Social networks in Great Whale River
5.1. Informal family and friendship networks
6. Language practices
6.1. Social networks and boundary maintenance
7. Summary and conclusions
6. Summary and conclusions
1. Discussion of the study
2. Implications of the study
Notes
References
Appendix
Index

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