Author: Dany Bebel-Gisler
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296157238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 257

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Author: Dany Bébel-Gisler
Publisher: Editions l'Harmattan ; Montréal : Editions Nouvelle-Optique
ISBN: 9780885790012
Category : Creole dialects West Indies
Languages : fr
Pages : 255

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Author: Martin Harris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415164177
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind.

Author: Dany Bébel-Gisler
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813915180
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Leonara is a first in francophone Caribbean literature: neither fiction nor biography, this book by sociologist and Creole-culture advocate Dany Bebel-Gisler has elements of both novelistic and documentary style. It has been likened to the Latin-American testimonio genre (testimony novel). The real-life Leonara- model for and subject of this book- told Bebel-Gisler that "in this book made up of my words, it is my very self that is present. You have written the story just as I have told it" In the course of her life, Leonara has witnessed, from her perspective as the mother of a large family, the passage of Guadeloupe from colony to departement of France; from the hard-scrabble subsistence agriculture of the rural poor to the subsudized consumer economy of France's overseas departements today. Along the way she offers witty and pungent observations on language, politics, sex, and religion.

Author: Odnell David
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Tunde Okanlawon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Thomas Klingler
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080715590X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That, by Thomas Klingler, is an in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a community situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River above Baton Rouge that dates back to the early eighteenth century. The first comprehensive grammatical description of this particular variety of Louisiana Creole, Klingler's work is timely indeed, since most Creole speakers in the Pointe Coupee area are over sixty-five and the language is not being passed on to younger generations. It preserves and explains an important yet little understood part of America's cultural heritage that is rapidly disappearing. The heart of the book is a detailed morphosyntactic description based on some 150 hours of interviews with Pointe Coupee Creole speakers. Each grammatical feature is amply illustrated with contextual examples, and Klingler's descriptive framework will facilitate comparative research. The author also provides historical and sociolinguistic background information on the region, examining economic, demographic, and social conditions that contributed to the formation and spread of Creole in Louisiana. Pointe Coupee Creole is unusual, and in some cases unique, because of such factors as the parish's early exposure to English, its rapid development of a plantation economy, and its relative insulation from Cajun French. The volume concludes with transcriptions and English translations of Creole folk tales and of Klingler's conversations with Pointe Coupee's residents, a treasure trove of cultural and linguistic raw data. This kind of rarely printed material will be essential in preserving Creole in the future. Encylopedic in its approach and featuring a comprehensive bibliography, If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That is a rich resource for those interested in the development of Louisiana Creole and in Francophony.

Author: Constance R. Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Dany Bébel-Gisler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 350

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Author: Arthur Kean Spears
Publisher: Caribbean Studies
ISBN: 9780739112366
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature, and social interaction. Although spoken by virtually all Haitians, Creole was recognized as the co-official language of Haiti only a little over twenty years ago. The Haitian Creole Language provides essential information for professionals, other service providers, and Creole speakers who are interested in furthering the use of Creole in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Increased language competencies would greatly promote the education of Creole speakers and their participation in the social and political life of their countries of residence. This book is an indispensable tool for those seeking knowledge about the centrality of language in the affairs of Haiti, its people, and its diaspora.