Words of the Inuit : A Semantic Stroll Through a Northern Culture / Louis-Jacques Dorais

Englisch

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2020

©2020

1 online resource (345 pages)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9780887558627

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Dorais, Louis-Jacques *1945-*: Words of the Inuit. - Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2020. - XI, 325 Seiten

978-0-88755-864-1

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-88755-862-7 (Druckausgabe)

*Inuktitut / Wortschatz / Semantik

*Eskimo / Ethnolinguistik

*Electronic books

"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.

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.

Elektronische Ressource - Nutzung mit Bibliotheksausweis der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Einzelnutzerlizenz

BIBTEX - ENDNOTE - RIS