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Record W2502891758 · doi:10.14288/cl.v0i133.193571

Non-Standard Dialect in Percy Janes’ House of Hate

2020· article· en· W2502891758 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Graham Shorrocks

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Collections · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHatredBiographyWifeHistoryPsychoanalysisArt historyArtLiteraturePhilosophyPsychologyLawTheologyPolitics

Abstract

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L THIS STUDY WE examine Percy Janes' use of non-standard Newfoundland dialect in House of Hate. All page references to the text are based on the edition published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1970. Janes was born in 1922, and published House of Hate, his second novel, when he was forty-eight. Growing up in Corner Brook, he spoke non-standard dialect at home, and 90% of the dialect in the novel goes back to that time (Janes, personal communication ). House of Hate spans the lives of four generations of one family •— that of Saul Stone — as remembered and interpreted by one of his sons, Juju, but concentrates essentially on two of those generations, namely Saul and his wife, Gertrude, on the one hand, and their six children, Henry, Hilda, Raymond, Crawford, Juju and Frederick, on the other. The narrator, Juju, describes how everyone within the Stone household suffers from the hatred that Saul seems to feel toward all around him, and the hostility toward himself that he generates in his own children. The novel is clearly autobiographical, and some have seen little more than autobiography in it. For instance, Cockburn remarked that House of Hate was little more than [thinly and unimaginatively] disguised autobiographical (115). It is certainly true that Janes has admitted to an autobiographical element in House of Hate, but he has at the same time been most insistent that the work transcends mere autobiography (Interview if). In view, no doubt, of comments such as Cockburn's, Margaret Laurence spelled out the differences between fact and fiction :

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.094
Threshold uncertainty score0.188

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.005
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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