Introduction à la pragmatique des effets génériques: l’horreur dans tous ses états
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Abstract
Cet article pose les jalons d’une nouvelle approche theorique de la question du genre, la pragmatique des effets generiques. Cette approche permet de resoudre les problemes qui decoulent du phenomene de l’hybridite generique, une difficulte qui limite l’analyse formelle d’objets culturels d’un point de vue generique. Ce nouveau paradigme donne la primaute non pas au texte comme objet fini, mais a l’experience de son parcours par un lecteur/spectateur/joueur. Pour la pragmatique des effets generiques, le genre s’exprime dans des effets generiques qui se manifestent ponctuellement a travers la sequence semiotique d’un objet culturel, que le lecteur/spectateur/joueur peut reconnaitre et qui modulent a la fois son horizon d’attentes et sa comprehension cognitive de l’objet. La pertinence et les ramifications de cette approche sont demontrees a l’aide d’une etude de cas qui porte sur le genre videoludique du survival horror. Celui-ci est deconstruit en ses deux composantes, soit le genre thematique de l’horreur et le genre ludique du survival. Chacun est etudie a travers deux jeux, Resident Evil et Diablo, respectivement emblematique et etranger au genre. Neanmoins, l’analyse des elements formels et de la jouabilite de Diablo du point de vue experientiel demontre que ses mecaniques de jeu et sa structure donnent lieu a des effets d’horreur et de survival qui, bien que non prioritaires, ne peuvent etre ecartes d’une analyse sans risquer de denaturer l’objet. *** This paper lays the foundations of a new theoretical approach to genre, the pragmatics of generic effects. This approach allows us to solve the problems caused by the phenomenon of generic hybridity, a difficulty that limits formal analysis of cultural objects from a generic standpoint. This new paradigm places emphasis not on the text as a finite object, but rather on the experience of its traversal by a reader/spectator/player. In the pragmatics of generic effects, genre expresses itself through generic effects that manifest themselves punctually throughout the semiotic sequence of a cultural object, which the reader/spectator/player can recognize and that modulate both his horizon of expectations and his cognitive understanding of the object. The pertinence and ramifications of this approach are demonstrated by way of a case study of the survival horror video game genre. The genre is broken down into its two components, the thematic genre of horror and the game genre of survival. Each is studied through two games, Resident Evil and Diablo, respectively emblematic of and a stranger to the genre. Nevertheless, the analysis of Diablo’s formal elements and gameplay shows that its game mechanics and structure give way to horror and survival effects that, while ancillary, cannot be ignored by an analyst without denaturing the object. This issue was generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and published in partnership with Ludicine.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".