A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, PeopleLSU Press, 2004 - 304 pagina's Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultural landscapes. This creolized language -- a unique combination of localisms and words borrowed from French, Spanish, English, Indian, and Caribbean sources -- developed to suit the multiethnic needs of settlers, planters, explorers, builders, surveyors, and government officials. Today, this historic vernacular is often opaque to historians, architects, attorneys, geographers, scholars, and the general public who need to understand its meanings. With A Creole Lexicon, Jay Edwards and Nicolas Kariouk provide a highly organized resource for its recovery. Here are definitions for thousands of previously lost or misapplied terms, including watercraft and land vehicles, furniture, housetypes unique to Louisiana, people, and social categories. |
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... Cajun Parishes of Louisiana Newton/Edwards Acadiana 2 2. Map 2: Original Acadian Settlement Areas Edwards Acadie 3 3 ... Cajun barn 42 28. Evolution of an Acadian House Eggart/Gray Cajun house 42 29. Eastlake Camelback Funderburk ...
... Cajun and Creole speech, but with a few notable exceptions, linguists have neglected the study of the historic vocabularies of the French, Spanish, and other Creole colonists who resided in the Louisiana territory in the eighteenth ...
... Cajun French were also helpful. In addition, we drew heavily from lexicons of spoken colonial and historic French of the Mississippi Valley and New France. Particularly useful were the works of Ward A. Dorrance on Ste. Geneviève French ...
... Cajun names and expressions surrounding numerous architectural and landscape features, as well as many tools and implements. His knowledge of the more technical aspects of spoken Cajun expanded our understanding of how it was used in ...
... Cajun geographical locator au large, for “out on the open prairie,” derives from an expression for “out in the open sea.” The term débarquement, referring to a ship's landing, was applied to the unloading of a wagon at a Cajun house, as ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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