Being Portuguese in Montreal: Cultural and Traditional Practices as Markers of the Community's Identity
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article aims to present the cultural practices that mark Portuguese identity in the Portuguese community of Montreal. This community, established primarily in the district of Saint-Louis, is an example of an ethnic district where Portuguese traditions thrive, and the Portuguese language serves as a vehicle of communication. Portuguese migrants arrived there in the 1950s and created their own space, while also integrating within the urban linguistic landscape of French or English. The research presented here is based on an ethnography that illustrates how dynamic the community is and how language practices in Portuguese evolved and are used within the group mainly during cultural activities and traditions. In addition, discursive analysis is used to examine elements relating to community members’ cultural and linguistic awareness with the process of identity (re)construction. This research shows how the Portuguese language and its representations may help in understanding the complex process of defining the group’s identity through cultural and traditional practices. KEYWORDS: Cultural Practices, Portuguese Migration, Montreal, Language and Identity, Representations and Imaginaries RESUMO: Este artigo tem como objetivo de mostrar como a comunidade portuguesa em Montreal mantem-se ativa hoje-em-dia. Esta comunidade, instalada no distrito de SaintLouis, é um exemplo de distrito étnico onde as tradições vivem e a língua portuguesa é um veículo de comunicação. Os migrantes portugueses chegaram desde a década de 1950 e criaram um espaço próprio, mesmo integrando mais com a sociedade francófona ou anglófona dentro da paisagem linguística urbana de Montreal. A pesquisa etnográfica que nos serve como base, permite observar como a comunidade é dinâmica e como as práticas linguísticas em português evoluem dentro do grupo, juntamente com atividades culturais e tradições. Além disso, a análise discursiva fornece alguns elementos que relacionam a consciência cultural e linguística dos membros da comunidade com o processo de (re)construção da identidade. A pesquisa mostra como a língua portuguesa e as suas representações podem ajudar na compreensão do processo de definição da identidade do grupo através de práticas culturais e tradicionais. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Práticas culturais, Migração portuguesa, Montreal, Língua e Identidade, Representações e Imaginários
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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.
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