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Record W7131822017 · doi:10.34632/9789725407608_29

Four French-Canadian official translators and historians (1837-1927)

2020· book-chapter· pt· W7131822017 on OpenAlexaffabout
Denise Merkle

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen MIND · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languagept
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTranslation Studies and Practices
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Moncton
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEliteAgency (philosophy)Translation studiesLiterary translationComponent (thermodynamics)

Abstract

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Writing the translation history of a bilingual country such as Canada is a monumental task. To make the enterprise manageable, it is necessary to narrow the approach and corpus. Adopting a psycho-sociological approach (Buzelin 2005; Meylaerts 2008; Wolf 2006), this study focuses on four official translators, members of the French-Canadian literary elite from 1837 to 1927 — François-Xavier Garneau, Joseph August Genand, Benjamin Sulte, Jules Tremblay — who have “[gone] down in history” (Seruya 2016: 18) as agents of minority culture preservation through their activist translation and writing work. In keeping with the approach, four of Lieven D’hulst’s (2001: 25-30) parameters (the translator’s biography, what has been translated, why and when, and the effect of translations and writings on society) have been mobilized to produce this contribution to translation history. The four translators were known to one another through their readings and networks, thereby creating a tight-knit literary and translation community, or a “collective subject” with agency (Milton et al. 2001: 279). Their marked interest in history was an important component of their shared purpose of actively contributing to the survival of their dominated minority nation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.105
Threshold uncertainty score0.380

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.007
Science and technology studies0.0240.006
Scholarly communication0.0060.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

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 head0.127
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.149 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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Published2020
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