Restless River: Subtitling as Languaging Inuit Diversity in Canada.

In a ti me when the Arcti c is receiving more att enti on, Arnait Video Producti ons, the first independent producti on company made by Arcti c women, is recently promoti ng the unique culture and voices of Inuit women in order to celebrate the specificity of the culture of women in Igloolik and represent their perspecti ves and values within larger nati onal and internati onal discussions. Such a film with subti tles as Restless River (2019), writt en and directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau in collaborati on with Madeline Ivalu, not only envisions its own detailed blueprints of Inuit communiti es as opposed to the social norms of the colonisers, but is also an audiovisual narrati ve of female identi ty constructi on. My central purpose will be to re-read the aforementi oned film from a cogniti ve perspecti ve projecti ng such a conceptual metaphor as "Subti tling is Languaging Diversity". I will analyse the linguisti cs of subti tling from a cogniti ve perspecti ve in order to demonstrate that nati ve minoriti es may be conceptualised in subti tling and that Inuit ethnicity is reproduced faithfully in audiovisual media. Through such an Inuit movie as Restless River, whose dramati c story of female identi ty constructi on is endowed with parabolic power, subti tling seems to confer prominence to Inuit minoriti es challenging dominant, homogenising systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]