Suggestive Sonorities: Representing and Translating Silence in Works by Québécois Poets Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau and Anne Hébert
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As a mode of poetic communication, silence is a contradictory phenomenon—how can the lack of sound be “voiced”? Since silence in itself cannot be represented, other than by blank spaces, pauses, caesurae, or by the blank page, it must somehow be “suggested”. Drawing on notions from musicology and Sound Studies, this article explores issues in the textual representation of silence and its translation. The linguistic means by which two key Québécois poets, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau and Anne Hébert, “translate” silence in their poems are identified, and the challenges these “effects of silence” pose for their Anglophone translators explored. In conclusion, the article sketches out areas of fruitful future collaboration between Sound Studies and Translation Studies.
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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 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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 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".