Reviews for Travaux de linguistique québécoise

The average rating for Travaux de linguistique québécoise based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-09 00:00:00 Joshua King Hands down, the 1st section is the most interesting. It goes into the history of Canadian French and how it changed over time. The second section includes a lot of French phrases without any translations available. So I missed a lot of it, the whole middle section actually because of how many untranslated phrases there are. The target audience seems to be for bilingual folks. And finally, the last section gets into the nitty gritty linguistics data which is interesting for language nuts like me. Some parts read like it's very out of date and perhaps a book like this is where the 'Eskimos have 30 words for snow' mistaken theory comes from. Note: don't use the word, Eskimos anymore, please!! Some academics still use this out-dated word from a more racist time. Today, Canadian Northerners want to be called Inuit. This book probably won't age well because of the inherent racism towards Canadian Indigenous people. I'd recommend an up-to-date book on this subject.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-04 00:00:00 jose martinez vazquez An informative take on journalistic impressions covering a vast Québecois historical expanse.