Switching identity in multicultural Canadian literature : codeswitching as a discursive strategy and a marker of identity construction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, I investigate how the discourse on multicultural and multilingual Canadian identity is represented and encoded in contemporary literary works. I focus in particular on the phenomenon of codeswitching as a negotiation of social and personal identity and as a discursive strategy. After outlining the sociolinguistic approach taken from Gumperz, Poplack, Myers-Scotton, and Heller, according to which the functions of language are markers of the choices the speakers make to convey personal identity and to establish their social role, I consider some examples from Nino Ricci's trilogy on the Italian immigrant experience in Canada (Lives of the Saints, 1990, In a Glass House, 1993, and Where She Has Gone, 1997), paying particular attention to the grammatical structures and the sociolinguistic functions of the switched parts of the texts, where codeswitching performs also as a narrative strategy adopted in order to introduce a discourse on Italian-Canadian identity and on Canadianness as the space of multiculturalism and multilingualism.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".