<i>La Variation lexicale des français: dictionnaires, bases de données, corpus. Hommage à Claude Poirier.</i> Sous la direction de A <scp>nnick</scp> F <scp>arina</scp> et V <scp>aleria</scp> Z <scp>otti</scp> . <i>La Variation lexicale des français: dictionnaires, bases de données, corpus. Hommage à Claude Poirier.</i> Sous la direction de FarinaAnnick et ZottiValeria. (Lexica — mots et dictionnaires, 28.) Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014. 368 pp., ill.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new generation of researchers pays homage, in this edited volume, to the pioneering work of Claude Poirier, and builds on his exploration of lexical richness across multiple varieties of French. A professor at the Université Laval, Poirier directed the Trésor de la langue française au Québec (TLFQ) for twenty-eight years and created the Base de données lexicographiques panfrancophones, which he still supervises (see Chiara Molinari’s contribution for a description of this corpus). In the opening chapter, former student Robert Vézina describes Poirier as a prolific researcher, first-rate pedagogue, and ‘vulgarisateur hors pair’ (p. 22), whose innumerable media appearances gave linguistic variation public visibility. Vézina notes the double objective of Poirier’s work, evident from the start of his career: advancing lexicography, and promoting the social utility of lexicographic research. In his own chapter, Poirier highlights the benefit of a non-francophone linguistic perspective, which promotes objectivity owing to its geographical and emotional distance. Additionally, he recognizes the potential of a ‘regard extérieur’ (p. 39) to promote speakers’ acceptance and affirmation of their francophone linguistic identity. This collection of seventeen essays gives us ‘un français de référence […] repensé sous le signe du partage’ (p. 15), reflective of Poirier’s ‘vision mosaïque’ of language (p. 11). Contributions identify and analyse forms from different francophone varieties: francophone realia in dictionaries, zoomorphic metaphors about women in Swiss French, colloquial Quebec French vocabulary in comics, and lexical innovations in the African press. Other chapters examine the historical treatment of francophone regionalisms by lexicographers, issues related to the semantic expansion and phraseology of non-Parisian varieties, and the difficulties of translating francophone writings. This last topic represents an interesting avenue for future research due to challenges of comprehension and reformulation posed by francophone texts. In his micro-analysis of the translation of a francophone essay, André Thibault observes how regionalisms are misinterpreted with more or less attention to ‘la coloration régionale de l’emploi’ (p. 286) and asks, ‘[l]’antillanité est-elle traduisible?’ (p. 263). Gerardo Acerenza evaluates strategies used to translate Québécois regionalisms and finds that translators are often unaware of associative connotations of particular terms. Valeria Zotti points out that translators’ comprehension is complicated by the failure of monolingual dictionaries to account for specific varieties, and by the shortcomings of bilingual dictionaries. In response, she proposes a tool to better equip translators to understand regionalisms in context and to find approximate linguistic equivalence: using Fichier lexical, a textual corpus created by the TLFQ, Zotti developed a parallel translation corpus, QU.IT Québec-Italie. Her corpus allows users to access a word or expression contextualized in several discourses and attested translations. Other contributions demonstrate the value of non-traditional sources for lexicographical research. For example, Pierre Rézeau’s epistolary corpus of First World War correspondence of French soldiers contains features of oral language typically not represented in dictionaries. The diverse topics and approaches contained in this volume may strike some readers as overly eclectic. However, the collection constitutes a suitable homage to a researcher who has sought to embrace the vibrancy of a linguistic mosaic throughout his career.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.011 | 0.029 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.006 |
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".