If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana - Image 1

£65.95

LSU Press If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

Name: If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Brand: LSU Press
Price: 65.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

French

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£66 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 74 days · 74 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 74 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £66 (74 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £66 - £66

Price levels: 1 different prices over 74 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

Brand: LSU Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0807127795
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference > By Language > French
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 August 2003
Listed Since: 16 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

LSU Press If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Lorenzo Dow Turner: Father of Gullah Studies

New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches

Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture (America's Third Coast Series)

French on Shifting Ground: Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana (America's Third Coast Series)

Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide: 6 (Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB], 6)

Routledge Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education Book

Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context: A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti (Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism)

Style in African Literature: Essays on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Styles: 154 (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 154)

English Rhythm and Blues: Where Language and Music Come Together

Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars

The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities

The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Volume 3: Contact Languages Based on Languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas (Oxford Linguistics)

The West Indian Language Issue in British Schools (1979): Challenges and Responses (Routledge Revivals)

English around the World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler: 53 (Creole Language Library)

Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication (Second Language Learning and Teaching)

French Today: Language in its Social Context

Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication (Second Language Learning and Teaching)

Information Science Reference - Home Language Use in Classrooms

French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)

Continuum Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change

Language Variety in the New South: Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation