Discourses of Language Endangerment and Maintenance Among Young Bi/Plurilingual Speakers of a Francophone Minority School in Vancouver
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Abstract
This article examines the ways that discourses of endangerment and maintenance have been taken up among young bi/plurilingual speakers who attend a French-language high school in Vancouver. It is based on interviews conducted with 31 grade-11 students (16–17 years old). A thematic analysis of the data revealed two main contrasting discourses among students: one in which French is perceived as being threatened by English (a discourse of endangerment) and one in which French is valued as linguistic capital and viewed as a component of their identities (a discourse of maintenance). These dominant discourses are comprised of five different themes. The findings suggest that these young Vancouverites have internalised common discourses about the endangerment of French, but that they are also mobilising new discourses of maintenance that involve different ideologies about the continuing use of French within the community, which calls for a redefinition of what it means to be a French-speaker in Vancouver.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".