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,...
Language and culture
- Author:Dorais, Louis-JacquesSummary:
- Author:Conway, KyleSummary:
People's minds are hard to change. In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn...
- Author:Lamoureux, Sylvie A., Cotnam, MeganSummary:
Le rapport à l’identité linguistique est un thème fondamental dans les établissements scolaires de langue française en milieux minoritaires. Faisant écho à leurs préoccupations, cet ouvrage présente à la fois les récits identitaires de...
- Author:Daigle, FranceSummary:
Pour sûr c'est l'histoire de personnages attachants, Terry et Carmen, que l'on a connus dans les précédents romans de l'auteur, leurs enfants Étienne et Marianne, et toute cette humanité qui gravite autour du bar Le Babar, à Moncton -...
- Author:Stroińska, MagdaSummary:
My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska's personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive...
- Author:Hudes, Quiara AlegraSummary:
Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the...
- Author:Basalamah, SalahSummary:
Cet ouvrage étudie les conditions d'émergence historiques et discursives du "droit de (la) traduction" et du droit qui l'administre : le droit d'auteur. Privilégiant une approche essentiellement archéologique, l...
- Author:Kortekangas, OtsoSummary:
In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all citizens. Yet these elementary education...
- Author:Daigle, France, Majzels, RobertSummary:
For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose — which is occasionally interrupted by surprising...
- Author:Quirion, Jean, Depecker, Loïc, Rousseau, Louis-JeanSummary:
La terminologie, soit l'ensemble des termes spécifiques à une science, à une technique ou à un domaine particulier de l'activité humaine, représente aujourd'hui une discipline à part entière. Elle relève aussi bien de la...