ISBN:
9780887558641
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Serie:
Contemporary Studies on the North Ser. v.8
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Dorais, Louis-Jacques, 1945 - Words of the Inuit
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Inuktitut
;
Wortschatz
;
Semantik
;
Eskimo
;
Ethnolinguistik
Kurzfassung:
"Words of the Inuit" is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author's decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface by Lisa Koperqualuk -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Words from the Past: A Stroll Through Inuit Semantics -- Chapter 1: Words for Speaking About the Environment and the Land -- Chapter 2: Words for Speaking About Animals and Subsistence Activities -- Chapter 3: Words for Speaking About Humans and Spirits -- Chapter 4: Words for Speaking About Family, Kinship, and Naming -- Chapter 5: Words for Speaking About the Human Body -- Chapter 6: Words for Socializing in the Contemporary World -- Conclusion: Words for the Future -- Appendix: Polysunthesis: A Big Word for Something Fairly Simple -- Notes -- Glossary of Inuit Words -- References.
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