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Record W7115677070 · doi:10.17118/11143/23713

« Ne dites pas… Dites avec élégance… » : la construction de l’autorité déontique dans le discours prescriptif des premières chroniques de langage belges (1922-1956)

2025· article· fr· W7115677070 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueCircula · 2025
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Linguistics and Language Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFocus (optics)Variety (cybernetics)On LanguageDeontic logicEnglish language

Abstract

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In French-speaking Belgium, language columnists were among the main representatives of a language correction movement. Because of their prescriptive approach which dominated from the birth of the genre in the early 20th century until the 1980s, language columns helped to fuel the conflictual relationship Belgians have long had with their variety of French. The aim of this article is to examine the discursive construction of deontic authority in prescriptive Belgian language columns. More specifically, we will focus on the linguistic means used by columnists to position themselves about the actions to be taken in terms of ‘good’ language use. Within this framework, the uses pro­moted can be described as more or less obligatory, optional, permitted or prohibited. The qualitative analysis is based on a corpus of texts published between 1922 and 1956 in the language columns of Joseph Deharveng and Philippe Baiwir.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.905
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it