Precisions Given by Inuit Language Concerning the Notion of Remembering
Referring to the Series Innarnik apiqsuqattarniq/Interviewing Elders produced since 1999 by the Language and Culture Program at the Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit, I will try to analyze a few aspects of this new oral “genre”. Taking into account the specific context of oral transmission within an...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:cBHEhU1LE27sLzzO1un_Z 2023-05-15T15:01:54+02:00 Precisions Given by Inuit Language Concerning the Notion of Remembering Michèle Therrien 2003-10-15 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2002-v26-n2-3-as554/007051ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2002-v26-n2-3-as554/007051ar.pdf https://doi.org/10.7202/007051ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2002-v26-n2-3-as554/007051ar/ https://core.ac.uk/display/59230734 https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2155077800 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/007051ar undefined unknown Consortium Erudit Département d’anthropologie de l’Université Laval Érudit http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2002-v26-n2-3-as554/007051ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2002-v26-n2-3-as554/007051ar.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/007051ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2002-v26-n2-3-as554/007051ar/ https://core.ac.uk/display/59230734 https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2155077800 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/007051ar undefined 007051ar 10.7202/007051ar 2155077800 oai:erudit.org:007051ar 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::c7decda53910f8d59819874d5f970ad0 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities Therrien ethnolinguistique sémantique mémoire savoir durable transmission orale ethnolinguistics semantics remembering long-standing knowledge oral transmission lang phil Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ Text https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_18cf/ 2003 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/007051ar 2023-01-22T17:52:01Z Referring to the Series Innarnik apiqsuqattarniq/Interviewing Elders produced since 1999 by the Language and Culture Program at the Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit, I will try to analyze a few aspects of this new oral “genre”. Taking into account the specific context of oral transmission within an institutional frame, I will focus on the way interviewed Inuit Elders speak about memory. Relying on short excerpts of their discourse concerning remembering, retaining, refreshing one’s memory, forgetting, I will try to answer the following questions: What can we learn by paying attention to the words chosen by the Elders? Which notions and concepts the terminology related to “remembering” can shed light on? What expressive linguistic elements illustrate the role played by the speaker in a given testimony about the past? The enquiry seems legitimate, taking into account the fact that all languages show interesting distinctions concerning knowledge. I will also take into account the following hypothesis: conceptualization is both linked to universal and cultural constraints. We will see how these are expressed in the actual context of oral knowledge transmission. Je propose d’analyser l’un des aspects d’un nouveau « genre » de l’oralité inuit, en m’appuyant sur la série Innarnik apiqsuqattarniq/Interviewing Elders produite depuis 1999 au sein du Language and Culture Program du Nunavut Arctic College à Iqaluit. S’agissant d’une mémoire en action, sollicitée dans un contexte institutionnel pour sauvegarder le contenu du savoir, je m’attacherai, pour mieux comprendre quelques aspects de ce mode de transmission culturelle, à des formes linguistiques significatives appartenant au champ sémantique de la mémoire. Je m’appuierai sur le lexique pour mieux saisir de quelle manière sont désignées, en inuktitut, les opérations générales liées à la mémoire (la conservation, la fonction de rappel, l’oubli, la réactivation) et tenterai de répondre aux questions suivantes : dans quelle mesure la terminologie est-elle susceptible ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic inuit inuktitut Iqaluit Nunavut Unknown Arctic Nunavut Anthropologie et Sociétés 26 2-3 117 135 |
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Referring to the Series Innarnik apiqsuqattarniq/Interviewing Elders produced since 1999 by the Language and Culture Program at the Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit, I will try to analyze a few aspects of this new oral “genre”. Taking into account the specific context of oral transmission within an institutional frame, I will focus on the way interviewed Inuit Elders speak about memory. Relying on short excerpts of their discourse concerning remembering, retaining, refreshing one’s memory, forgetting, I will try to answer the following questions: What can we learn by paying attention to the words chosen by the Elders? Which notions and concepts the terminology related to “remembering” can shed light on? What expressive linguistic elements illustrate the role played by the speaker in a given testimony about the past? The enquiry seems legitimate, taking into account the fact that all languages show interesting distinctions concerning knowledge. I will also take into account the following hypothesis: conceptualization is both linked to universal and cultural constraints. We will see how these are expressed in the actual context of oral knowledge transmission. Je propose d’analyser l’un des aspects d’un nouveau « genre » de l’oralité inuit, en m’appuyant sur la série Innarnik apiqsuqattarniq/Interviewing Elders produite depuis 1999 au sein du Language and Culture Program du Nunavut Arctic College à Iqaluit. S’agissant d’une mémoire en action, sollicitée dans un contexte institutionnel pour sauvegarder le contenu du savoir, je m’attacherai, pour mieux comprendre quelques aspects de ce mode de transmission culturelle, à des formes linguistiques significatives appartenant au champ sémantique de la mémoire. Je m’appuierai sur le lexique pour mieux saisir de quelle manière sont désignées, en inuktitut, les opérations générales liées à la mémoire (la conservation, la fonction de rappel, l’oubli, la réactivation) et tenterai de répondre aux questions suivantes : dans quelle mesure la terminologie est-elle susceptible ... |
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Precisions Given by Inuit Language Concerning the Notion of Remembering |
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Precisions Given by Inuit Language Concerning the Notion of Remembering |
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