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  • Southern Studies (U.S. South), Cajun/South Louisiana, Food Culture and Identity, Cajun Culture

A global study about the history of French varieties spoken in Louisiana, and the language policies in that US State

• • by Nicolas Martin-Minaret
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  • Language Planning and Policy, French language, Acadian French, Francophone Louisiana

The Louisiana Creole dialect formerly spoken along the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish has been recognized as somewhat divergent from other varieties of the language (Klingler and Dajko 2006). Northshore... more

The Louisiana Creole dialect formerly spoken along the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish has been recognized as somewhat divergent from other varieties of the language (Klingler and Dajko 2006). Northshore Creole–referred to elsewhere as St. Tammany Creole–does not benefit from a full grammatical description. On the basis of a sample of previously unanalyzed data, this paper gives a preliminary account of some linguistic peculiarities of the dialect and compares them with the better described Louisiana Creole dialects of Bayou Teche (Neumann 1981) and Pointe Coupee Parish (Klingler 2003). The data come from interviews conducted by Dr. Thomas A. Klingler in the mid-1990s. The audio was extracted from the interviews (originally recorded on Betamax tapes) and transcribed by Creole community members thanks to a grant from the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (NOCGS).

• • by Nathan Wendte
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  • Language Documentation, Francophone Louisiana, Louisiana Creole, Cajun and Creole Studies (Louisiana)

An opinion piece about the Creole situation in the state of Louisiana.

• • by Pierre Voisinage
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  • Francophone Louisiana, Louisiana Creole Culture, Creole Culture, Cajun and Creole Studies (Louisiana)

Down by the bayou in St Martinville, Louisiana, lies an oak tree which is supposed to mark the meeting place of Emmeline Labiche and Louis Arceneaux: the 'Evangeline' and 'Gabriel' whose legendary love, sundering and reunion is chronicled... more

Down by the bayou in St Martinville, Louisiana, lies an oak tree which is supposed to mark the meeting place of Emmeline Labiche and Louis Arceneaux: the 'Evangeline' and 'Gabriel' whose legendary love, sundering and reunion is chronicled in Henry Longfellow's epic poem 'Evangeline'. In this paper, in response to the conceptualisation of the mediatisation of romantic love expounded by Storey and McDonald (2013), I use an associative structure to explore a range of 'found' cultural, literary, historical, group analytic and psychosocial associations to this legend and to give an account of my own personal response to it. I locate the idealised story of Evangeline and Gabriel and their unconsummated pairing at the heart of the Romantic movement and its links to both contemporary and late-modern colonial discourses and I place this in the context of a wider commentary on the alienation of emotional states of being in consumerist societies.

• • by John Adlam
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  • Romanticism, Colonialism, Cajun/South Louisiana, Psychosocial Studies