Introduction: for a Francophonie of cohabitation
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Abstract
Introduction: for a Francophonie of cohabitation 1An apparently transcendental and inarguable idea conveyed within Francophone studies is the supposed equivalence between the Francophonie of the East and that of French Indochina or its variant, the former Vietnam.This position relates exclusively to the colonial past undergone by Indochina, which is neither a country nor a people.It is a name standardized for administrative reasons and based on where the states composing the colony are located.Consequently, several civilizations in Asia, including China, India, Japan, and many others find themselves left out from potential inclusion in the Francophonie of the East.It is not that these countries have never been subjected to a French regime in the course of their history, but they have been spared classical colonization, which is considered to be a requirement for belonging to the Francophone world. 2 Although these countries are de facto excluded from the French-speaking world, they are not, in spite of linguistic and cultural realities attested to by their histories, generally included within the framework of Francophonie.Stemming from a narrow and reductive perspective, this equation between 'colonization and Francophonie' dismisses out of hand any understanding of the Francophone reality in Asia before or after Indochina; in short, beyond the Indochinese borders.Behind this self-evidently transcendental idea lies the stubborn conviction that colonization alone leads inevitably to Francophonie.This is because it guarantees the rise of French -the final step in the process -as one of the official languages of the country.Thus conceived, colonization is seen as a premise and a unique way to access the Francophone phenomenon outside of France.Moreover, several Francophone areas, such as Sub-Saharan Africa or the Maghreb, where the Francophone element comes directly from colonization, would seem to support such an argument. 3Such is therefore also the case for the Eastern Francophone world, where Vietnam, Cambodia, and 1 On the issues surrounding Francophonie in the East and in Asia, see The Australian Journal of French Studies, Special Issue: Francophonie and Its Futures, XLVIII (1), Jan-April 2011; also, French Review, Special Issue: Francophonie(s), May 2015. 2 In the sense of having been a colony of France. 3 Different cases produce different phenomena.If Francophonie in Switzerland or in Belgium has been able to benefit from a geographical proximity to the metropolis allowing them to share a geo-cultural osmosis, Quebec is an exception.For it was subject to classic colonization during
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".