Making it Their Own : : Seven Ojibwe Communicative Practices / / Lisa Philips Valentine.
The Anihshininiwak, an Algonquian people who live in the remote subarctic forests of northwestern Ontario, speak a variety of Ojibwe that represents one of the most robust indigenous languages in North America. In this book, Lisa Valentine explores the language and discourse of the people of Lynx La...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Discourse and Ethnographic Research
- 2. Overview: Severn Ojibwe and the People of Lynx Lake
- 3. Technology and Talk: Technological Change and Emerging Speech Events in Lynx Lake
- 4. Use of Multiple Codes: Code Switching, Language Levelling, and Language Attitudes
- 5. (Can You Write Syllabics?): Literacy in Lynx Lake
- 6. Intersection of Language and Music
- 7. Church, Discourse, Church Discourse, and Discourse about the Church
- 8. Telling Stories: First-Person Narrative in Severn Ojibwe
- 9. When Humans Could Talk with Animals: Legend-Myth in Lynx Lake
- 10. 'Work to Create the Future You Want'
- Postscript
- Appendix 1: Typological Overview of Severn Ojibwe
- Appendix 2: Terms for Talk
- Notes
- References
- Index