Weaving Languages: Inuk's Truths About Her Plurilingualism

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Nine
  In Roundtable Session: Settler Colonialism and Decolonial Possibilities (Table 10)

Abstract

This qualitative research inspired by an ethno-sociolinguistic (Blanchet & Chardenet, 2011, Blanchet 2012) and participative approach (Wang, 1999) discusses sociolinguistic representations of a plurilingual Inuk speaker. It aims to better understand how languages are transmitted through the active engagement of families’ experiences and mobile narratives of plural identities where French, English and other languages are weaved together with Inuktitut.
The corpus includes interviews, visual documentation by ethno-photography, notes, and field observations in a Nunavik community.
The contribution also questions the position of the researcher in an Indigenous environment (Moore & MacDonald, 2011) in the context of (re)vitalization and reconciliation (MacDonald, Moore, 2016; Patrick, 2015) in sociolinguistic and didactic research on plurilingualism.

Author

• Natacha Roudeix, Simon Fraser University
  Presenting Author