Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities. Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet, Barry Jean Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone, Dominique Ryon

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities



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Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet, Barry Jean Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone, Dominique Ryon ebook pdf
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Page: 933
ISBN: 1604734035, 9781604734034

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Here is a work of scholarship described by the publisher as “the definitive resource for understanding a distinct French dialect.” Senior editor Valdman is the director of the Creole Institute at Indiana University, and the dictionary was subsidized by Indiana University as well as by Tulane University and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, among others. The goal of the encyclopedia, as stated in the preface, is “to provide an inventory of the vocabulary of Louisiana French reflecting the speech of the period from 1930 to today.” The project team drew from existing lexical studies and also conducted fieldwork within a representative sampling of Louisiana’s French-speaking communities. Archival recordings served as additional source material. All entries were vetted by project team members who are native Cajuns. Entries and subentries contain spelling variants, a phonetic transcription, part of speech, an English equivalent, examples with English translations, source codes for the examples, and codes identifying the parishes and texts where the term was found. Some entries also contain usage notes. For example, we learn that habitant (farmer) is “sometimes pej.” (or pejorative). The illustrative examples make fascinating reading because many of them are based on interviews with native speakers. Among examples for mettre, some of whose definitions (translated into English) include “to put,” “to put in,” or “to put on,” are “I remember my grandmother, she took newspapers to put up on the wall for wallpaper, she did that”; “We would make a chicken fricassee and put dumplings in it”; and “His legs were surely as big as my cigar, but he wore a size fourteen shoe.” Capping off the dictionary is a substantial reverse English–Louisiana French index. As standard English-language dictionaries in print form dwindle, this volume is a superlative example of a highly specialized dictionary that definitely fills a gap. It is recommended for academic libraries with extensive linguistics collections and for both academic and large public libraries with collections related to the region. Dictionary lovers should seek it out. --Mary Ellen Quinn

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The definitive reference tool for understanding francophone Louisiana and its rich, French variety



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