{"product_id":"dictionary-of-louisiana-french-as-spoken-in-cajun-creole-and-american-indian-communities-9781604734034","title":"Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities","description":"The \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Louisiana French (DLF)\u003c\/i\u003e provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The new authoritative resource, the \u003ci\u003eDLF\u003c\/i\u003e not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The \u003ci\u003eDLF\u003c\/i\u003e features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in \u003ci\u003ela Louisiane\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Valdman\u003c\/b\u003e is Rudy Professor of French, Italian, and Linguistics (emeritus) and the director of the Creole Institute at Indiana University. He is also editor of the \u003ci\u003eHaitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eKevin J. Rottet\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of French linguistics and adjunct professor of linguistics at Indiana University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eLanguage Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Louisiana Creole\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eBarry Jean Ancelet\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, is author of many books about the French culture of southern Louisiana, including \u003ci\u003eCajun Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et cr?oles\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918169542930,"sku":"9781604734034","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3b6efcb0-d34d-4320-addf-69239142e1b9.jpg?v=1738878634","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dictionary-of-louisiana-french-as-spoken-in-cajun-creole-and-american-indian-communities-9781604734034","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}