Être inuk et plurilingue à Kuujjuaq au Nunavik (grand Nord québécois) pour marcher ensemble les langues

Abstract

This qualitative research inspired by an ethno-sociolinguistic (Blanchet & Chardenet, 2011) and participative approach (Wang, 1999) discusses sociolinguistic representations of plurilingual Inuit speakers. 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 is part of a doctoral thesis; it includes interviews, visual documentation by ethno-photography of community events, notes, and field observations in a Nunavik community. The contribution also questions, against the background of (re)vitalization and reconciliation (MacDonald, Moore, 2016; Patrick, 2015), the position of the researcher in an Indigenous environment (Moore & MacDonald, 2011) in sociolinguistic and didactic research on plurilingualism.

Keywords

• Plurilinguism
• plurilingual identities
• language biographies
• Inuit
• Nunavik