Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT. All discourse, says Edwin Black (1972), exerts pull of an ideology even when not explicitly designed to display such a pattern of beliefs. Much of the discourse that helps shape our identity and understanding does so through a network of interconnected beliefs and implicit assumptions that are rarely explicidy recognized. Textbooks perform exactly such a function, since, as many people wouId acknowledge, to do so is precisely their purpose: to help enculturate newcomers to the expectations and assumptions of a discipline. This paper offers a study of the process involved in what has become almost a minor industry in Canada: the Canadianization of American texts for the domestic market. The paper's focus is my experience in producing the Canadian edition of David Zarefsky's Public Speaking: Strategies for Success. My goal is to reveal something of the extent to which the study of communication not only naturalizes a disciplinary model but also implicitly encodes a set of identifiable cultural values and assumptions. RESUME. Selon Edwin Black ( 1972), tout discours permet a force d'attraction d'une ideologie» de s'exercer, meme si le discours ne vise a affirmer aucun modele de croyances. La plupart des discours qui contribuent a faconner notre identite et notre comprehension font intervenir un reseau de croyances et d'hypotheses implicites qui sont reliees entre elles et dont l'existence est rarement reconnue explicitement. Les manuels jouent precisement ce role, car, comme beaucoup le reconnaissent volontiers, leur raison d'etre est precisement de faciliter «l'acculturation» des novices qui assimilent les attentes et les hypotheses propres a une discipline. Cet article porte sur un processus qui constitue pratiquement un secteur d'activite mineur au Canada: la «canadianisation» de manuels americains pour le marche canadien. Il traite surtout de l'experience personnelle de l'auteur qui a participe a l'adaptation canadienne de Public Speaking: Strategies for Success de David Zarefsky. Il vise a montrer dans quelle mesure l'etude de la communication a pour effet non seulement de «naturaliser» un modele de discipline, mais aussi de coder implicitement un ensemble de valeurs et d'hypotheses culturelles reconnaissables.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".