Rewriting Interculturalism in Quebec. Some literary examples
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Abstract
The theme of language in Québec embraces two levels: on the one hand, it testifies to the often conflicting passage from one language to another, as the need to find an appropriate language; on the other, it symbolizes the interior and multidirectional readaptation that the immigrant must go through when he moves from one culture to another. The question of language, almost always associated with the difficulties of integration and acceptance, is found throughout migrant writing. In any case, in spite of the recurrence of the conflictual dimension of the meeting of languages, some writers also explore the issue of integration, a creator of hybridity and the unprecedented. Language then becomes a symbol of enrichment and transculturalism. \nAs countries of immigration, Canada and the United States have established and recognized traditions of immigrant and minority literature. But for Canada this tradition has been mainly if not exclusively expressed in English. The historical context of Quebec literature, reflecting the close association between the French language and a single cultural community, made the inclusion of minority voices within the framework of the Quebec literary institution impossible until recently. \nAs Québec literature begins to look forward by undertaking exploratory journeys to "foreign" lands, difference at home has become the province of minority writers. \nMarco Micone, Jean Jonassaint, Régine Robin, and Dany Laferrière, all write from a space which is at the same time both within, and peripheral to, Quebec society. Their marginality is expressed both explicitly in the thematic material of their writing and textually through choices of language and form. \nThe provocative blend of continuity and difference, affiliation and dissidence expressed in the work of these writers, as well as the importance they give to language, mark this writing as a significant development in Quebec literature.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".