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The article discusses the annual IASIL Bibliography, an overview of recent research in Irish literary studies, primarily focusing on Anglophone writing but also covering works in other languages. Topics include the continued prominence of major Irish writers such as Beckett, Joyce, and Yeats, the increasing scholarly attention to lesser-known Irish writers, and recent publications on specific genres and periods, such as Irish women writers, Irish Gothic, and Irish drama.

The article offers information on the annual IASIL Bibliography, serving as an overview of recent research in Irish literary studies, with a focus on Anglophone writing. Topics include the compilation by the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) bibliography subcommittee, encompassing works in various languages such as Irish, Chinese, French, and more, providing a resource for scholars and students.

This article argues that the rise of Anglophone parochialism, which signifies the tendency of Anglophone scholars to neglect language learning, is detrimental to historical study. The article argues that historians of all disciplines, including those that focus on Anglophone history, should take language learning seriously. The study adopts a generalist perspective because existing critiques of Anglophone parochialism tend to focus on individual disciplines. Although their points are well made, their restricted scope limits their persuasiveness somewhat, and it also risks obscuring the extent of the problem. The article makes four points. Firstly, and perhaps most urgently, a failure to consult literature in other languages often leads parochial Anglophones to produce impoverished and distorted scholarship. Second, because of the close link between language and culture, learning languages is crucial for gaining cultural awareness and understanding linguistic nuances that defy easy translation. Third, learning languages for academic purposes is more straightforward than many parochial Anglophones assume. Fluency in all respects is usually never required; passive understanding of relevant literature is often sufficient. Machine translation, though no substitute for human effort, can serve as an educational tool. Fourth, Anglophone parochialism disadvantages non-Anglophone scholars whose disciplines have traditionally been multilingual. It forces them to publish in English to receive "international" recognition, a process that requires much time and expense, and that lessens their ability to write in languages with which they may be more familiar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops an aesthetics of crossword puzzles. I present a taxonomy of crosswords in the Anglophone world and argue that there are three distinct sources of aesthetic value in crosswords. First, and in common with other puzzles, crosswords merit aesthetic experiences of our own agency: paradigmatically, the aesthetic experience of struggling for and hitting upon the right solution. In addition to instantiating the aesthetic value of puzzles in general, crosswords in particular can have two other sources of aesthetic value: the visual appeal of grid art and the poetic delight of idiomatic language. Crossword aesthetics takes place at the intersection of the recently popular aesthetics of puzzles and games and the more familiar aesthetics of the visual and literary arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"In the course of a federal electoral campaign in Canada, the French language ability of the candidates is widely discussed in both French-language and English-language media. This article proposes a discourse analysis of a representative sample of articles recovered in both French-language (20) and English-language (15) online news publications targeting the French language proficiency of candidates who have participated in the 2020 Conservative leadership French-language debate. Through an examination of representations of the French language and French language ability, the study develops a comparative analysis of the evaluation of French language ability of English-speaking Canadian politicians in the French-language and English-language Canadian media in a comparative perspective, demonstrating that the divergent language representations and the ideologies they underpin condition a number of differences between the two respective discourses: the overwhelmingly negatively constructed commentary in the French-language corpus, the construal of French language ability as an acquirable skill and a tool of communication by English Canadian journalists and as an intrinsic faculty by French Canadian journalists, and the positing of a monolingual educated native speaker as a standard in French Canadian journalistic metadiscourse on language, with no such standard discernible in the English Canadian discourse. Crucially, in examining the ways in which the two discourses interact, and, potentially, influence one another, the analysis shows the reproduction of discourse to be unidirectional, with French-language discourse influencing its English-language counterpart. This finding suggests an important role of language ideologies circulating in the French-language press in judging French language ability in Canada, which can be problematic for bilingual speakers and adult learners of French, such as English-speaking Canadian politicians." • Prominent focus on French language ability of English Canadian politicians preceding and following important events of the election cycle in both French Canadian and English Canadian press. • Overwhelmingly negative construal of French language ability of English-speaking politicians by French Canadian journalists, underpinned by the ideologies of the standard, of monolingualism, and of bilingualism. • Construal of French language ability as an acquirable skill and a tool of communication by English Canadian journalists – instrumental language ideologies. • Monolingual educated native speaker as a standard in French Canadian journalistic metadiscourse, unstable standard in English Canadian discourse. • Unidirectional influence of French Canadian discourse on its English Canadian counterpart, but not the reverse, problematic for English-Canadian politicians seeking to attain a positive evaluation of their French. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Asian American authors have certainly produced narratives of return to their or their predecessors' countries of origin, these narratives have, until recently, predominantly appeared in memoir and autobiography. Since the turn of the millennium there's been a significant uptick in the fictional portrayal of return. In stark contrast to the spiritual and filial returns in memoir, these fictional portrayals tend not to sentimentalize return. The protagonists who return more often follow economic or professional trajectories. In novels like Tao Lin's Taipei (2013), Ling Ma's Severance (2018), Han Ong's The Disinherited (2004), Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being (2013), Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son (2001), and Lucy Tan's What We Were Promised (2018), return to Asia intensifies rather than vitiates material structures of alienation. What we find is that they tend to undermine an emerging Twenty-first century racial form that welds the Asian to neoliberal flexibility, even if they often forego critique. This article will describe contemporary Asian/American return fictions in contrast to earlier manifestations of the genre and explore their problematic relationship to categories like Asian American and Anglophone Asian fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay revisits the early phases of the history of poetry written primarily in an anglophone Caribbean Creole by closely examining the circumstances in which the White Guyanese administrator Michael McTurk launched his Creole-speaking persona "Quow." It focuses on an 1870 verse letter to the editor in which McTurk dons the racialized mask of his persona to warn that an inquiry into the abuse of indentured Indian laborers will provoke a violent response from the Afro-Guyanese community. The essay argues that the versification of Quow's voice seeks to implant him as a "found" character from oral culture within the crossfire of heated yet formal public letters regarding the inquiry. The ballad supplies the means for McTurk to "Black up" the planter voice. In the process, he unwittingly inaugurated a regional tradition of public Creole verse authorship, one whose later exponents would, in different ways, have to contend with McTurk's minstrel legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is Southern Cameroons entitled to self-determination under international law? This article examines that critical question against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in Southern Cameroons and the people's quest for self-determination. While varied factors cause conflict, it has customarily been attributed to poor governance, non-compliance with the rule of law, injustice, inequality, abuse of minority rights, marginalisation, and colonially induced cleavages. Does this apply to the current crisis in Southern Cameroons? This article answers in the affirmative, highlighting that the current conflict in the regions arises from decades of marginalisation and underrepresentation of English-speaking Cameroonians in administrative, political, and socio-economic decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on newspapers and magazines, statistical sources and oral histories with 42 white, English Canadian women who rejected religious belief in the 1960s–1980s. During that era, organised religious involvement declined sharply in Canada and levels of unbelief gradually increased. This article explores how feminism shaped women's departure from religion in those years. The second‐wave women's movement tended to disregard religious feminisms and to associate religiosity with women's disempowerment; while secularity was endemic to the movement, the focus was on challenging institutional religion rather than belief itself. The secularity of the second wave could be narrow and exclusionary, but it also helped some women to challenge religious constraints. Although few interviewees were active in the women's movement, many recalled that feminism informed their journeys away from religion. Most came to an awareness of the patriarchy of organised religion – and dismissed it as such – in their teens or twenties, but rejected religious belief later in life. Due to persistent religious and gender norms, nonbelieving women were often reticent in voicing their unbelief. Nevertheless, they disseminated irreligion in a range of subtle yet powerful ways, and played a central role in the secularisation of post‐war English Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Welsh immigrants and their children comprised a distinct ethnolinguistic community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article analyzes the nature of that community and suggests that while ethnic integrity was initially maintained due to linguistic ability, religious adherence, and the creation of popular cultural institutions, it was ultimately undermined, not only by the general forces of acculturation, but also by specifically Welsh factors. While the Welsh experience in Johnstown differed sharply from that undergone by the English, it did not simply mirror that of other non-Anglophone groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article takes the reception of Rawlsian and post-Rawlsian theories of justice in France as a case study for exploring empirically the connection between French intellectuals' political and intellectual strategies and their position in the field of cultural production. The diversity of the uses made of Rawls, the agents involved, and their particular engagements all make the French reception of Anglophone political philosophy fertile ground for observing how the constraints associated with various positions in the intellectual field orient the strategies of agents. It draws on a prosopographic research on 115 of the main importers of Rawlsian and post-Rawlsian theories of justice developed in English-speaking countries into France, with semi-structured interviews for 52 of them. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) is used to reveal the main oppositions structuring the space of the reception in France of this political philosophy. The article next shows how the many uses of these theories of justice and the forms of engagement in which they were enrolled are related to agents' structural position in this space. Then the article proceeds to reconstruct in greater detail some of the trajectories of these mediators, including their perceptions of the space of 'possibles' available to them and how they orient themselves within that space. It thus sheds light on how intellectual strategies are developed, and the mechanisms through which these bring forth homologies between structural positions, intellectual position-takings, and models of political engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

French second language education, including the option of one‐way French immersion, is mandated for majority‐language Anglophone children in New Brunswick, Canada's only officially bilingual province. Language ideological debates in the province surrounding official English–French bilingualism led us to investigate adolescent majority‐language immersion students' investment in French, the co‐official minority language, using Darvin and Norton's tripartite (capital, ideology, identity) model. We discuss 3 student profiles, drawing on data collected from multimodal focus groups conducted among 8th‐grade French immersion students. Our analysis reveals a dominance of neoliberal ideologies in these students' investment in French, rendering it imbalanced and largely driven by imagined access to future economic capital. Language as cultural or social capital figures inconsistently in their investment. Drawing on our data, we conclude by proposing that Darvin and Norton's model, with a balanced focus on each kind of capital within the model, may be used conceptually by educators in program development. The model used in such a way would enable educators to give equal priority to students' identity and intercultural development as to their preparation for participation in economic marketplaces, thus potentially expanding majority‐language students' investment in their co‐official minority second language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following semi-autobiographical essay tells a cautionary tale about the entrenched Anglocentrism, Eurocentrism, and Alphabetism in reading and reading disabilities (dyslexia) research. Having been born, raised, and educated in an entirely monolingual English-speaking environment, I later migrated to a country where non-European languages (Hebrew and Arabic) were the linguae francae and, furthermore, written in a non-alphabetic script. Over the period of a decade or so, I gradually, and sometimes painfully, came to understand that I needed to revise or discard many of my Anglophone insights into reading and reading disabilities. The culmination of this "awakening" came with the writing of my Anglocentricities critique (Share, 2008), where I argued that the extreme ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence had confined reading science to an insular, Anglocentric research agenda addressing theoretical and applied issues with limited relevance for the majority of the world's literacy learners. I subsequently extended this argument to Eurocentricism and Alphabetism - the misguided belief that alphabets are inherently superior to non-alphabetic writing systems (Share, 2014). More recently, together with Peter T. Daniels, a linguist specializing in writing systems, I have been exploring writing system diversity and its implications for learning to read around the world (Daniels & Share, 2018). I hope my story will help raise awareness of the need to move our field a step closer toward embracing global diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intergroup sentiments have been shown to be an important determinant of social stability in multinational countries. The present study explores the present state of linguistic intergroup tensions in Canada to contribute to the understanding of outgroup attitudes among minorities and majorities. Four main findings are derived from the results of empirical analyses on survey data. (1) Cultural threat impacts outgroup attitudes in both the national minority and the national majority. (2) Education has a strong impact on feelings towards the linguistic outgroup. (3) Unexpectedly, age does not display a statistical influence on intergroup attitudes. (4) Specifically relating to Canada, intergroup feelings between Francophones and Anglophones have over the last quarter century become considerably more positive, both groups hold quite positive attitudes towards one another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines ongoing efforts to associate the decline of the modernist electroacoustic music tradition with the rise of digital technologies. Illustrative material is drawn from ethnographic and archival fieldwork conducted in 2011 and 2012 in the Canadian city of Montreal. The author surveys examples of institutions, careers, performances and works showing how the digital is brought into the ideological service of existing musical orders and power structures by musicians, policy-makers and other intermediaries. Drawing upon the social theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Georgina Born, as well as on contemporary media theory, the author argues that accounts of the disruptive agency of digital mediation are incomplete without a corresponding attention to the complex cultural mechanisms by which it is kept under control. What is at stake in the transformation of Montreal's electroacoustic tradition is not a collapse so much as a further remediation of modernist social and aesthetic principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the first century in the remarkable history of the Western Canadian Church founded two centuries ago in St. Boniface. A veritable nerve centre in the dissemination of Catholicism toward the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, St. Boniface is right from the beginning heterogeneous and pluralistic. With its Francophone, Indigenous, Métis, Anglophone and Allophone components, it is a veritable crucible of ethnic and linguistic diversity within the Catholic Church in Canada, an expression and portent of the diversity that became a hallmark of Canadian identity seventy years later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SSJ has recently published commentaries by Laberge and Girardin (1992) and McAll (1992), on our analyses of sport practices among Anglophone and Francophone Canadians, that obscure more than they clarify. The comments contain problems of misunderstanding and misrepresentations and put forward a nonviable theoretical interpretation of Francophone/Anglophone differences in leisure sport participation. They also recommend a problematic research strategy for the area of study. We briefly spell out some of the problems involved in the two sets of comments. We also present additional data for the late 1980s that further call into question the commentators' interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper questions both the validity of the "value-differences thesis" put forward by White and Curtis as an explanation for differences in sport participation on the part of Canadian Anglophones and Francophones, and the inference of these authors that such hypothetical value-differences may better explain historical and contemporary inequalities between the two language groups than the alternative "conquest and discrimination" model. It is suggested that White and Curtis' argument only stands up insofar as the discrimination model is not thoroughly discussed and tested. In particular the central role played by sports as a site in which social inequalities are structured and reinforced is not adequately taken into account by these authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

White and Curtis' recent papers (Sociology of Sport Journal, 1990, 7, pp. 347-368; International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 990, 25, pp. 125- 141) claiming a difference between Canadian Anglophones and Francophones in achievement values are critiqued. Two particular concerns are at issue. The first bears on the relationship these authors make between competitive sport participation and competition/achievement values. On that score, attention is focused upon some epistemological and methodological inadequacies. It is further argued that a conservative ideological perspective is implied in the inferring of achievement values from competitive sport participation. The second point challenges the idealistic conception conveyed by the authors' contention that "studies outside the domain of work, on people's 'voluntary' orientations to leisure activities, may more clearly show language group differences in achievement values." Instead, it is proposed that sport practices are determined by the given social structure in which social agents live and by its specific social history. It is contended that an hermeneutical approach would be a more adequate alternative to the cross-cultural study of values differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multivariate analyses are presented showing, for the mid-1970s, the comparative propensities of Canadian anglophones and francophones to participate in forms of competitive sport and sport outside the family. Presented are data consistent with the values-differences perspective, which holds that there are differences in orientation toward achievement and the family across the Canadian linguistic groups. The analyses focus on a test of a specification of the values-differences thesis--the school-socialization interpretation, which holds that sport involvement patterns result in part because of differences in how competitive sport is organized in the schools in French Canada versus English Canada. It was found that differences in competitive sport participation were smaller after controls for respondents' experience with sport during the school years. However, there remained significant francophone/anglophone differences in orientation to competitive and extra-family sport after controls for the effects of school experience and other social background factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

French Canadians in professional ice hockey perform generally better than English Canadian or American players. This is particularly clear at the position of defenseman. Stacking in the National Hockey League (NFIL) is also observed, with very few French Canadians playing defense. Four theses are presented to explain these two phenomena. The first three theses-based on differences in the style of play, the cultural costs of moving to an NI-IL city, and the proficiency of the language of work (English)-all incorporate convincing arguments but fail to predict further established facts. Hiring discrimination best explains all of the facts that have been gathered by students of ice hockey. Except in the case of defensemen, little or no salary discrimination against Francophones could be identified, although their pay is determined differently. The collection of a wide variety of data suggests that favoritism by scouts substantially affects the outcome of hiring decisions, especially at the positions for which assessment is highly uncertain and subjective, that is, the position of defense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the media habits of light TV viewers in Canada to determine how best to reach them. Light viewers cannot be selectively reached by manipulating TV schedules because no type of programming attracts more than its fair share of light viewers. English light viewers spend more time with TV than any other medium, while French light viewers spend the most time with radio. This refutes the Media Imperative concept that magazines are the alternative to TV. Reach analysis reveals that light viewers are reached by TV at even moderate weight levels. Light Viewer reach is about one-half total reach up to moderate reach levels. At higher weights there is a frequency, not a reach, discrepancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on future of Canadian studies in Portugal. It mentions the study of Canadian literatures and cultures as part of courses on larger subjects not to mention that besides Canadian anglophone and francophone literary and cultural studies no other disciplines are represented. It also mentions institutionalization of Canadian studies is at more developed stages such as in German-speaking countries and sustained cooperation with international scholars.

A brief introductory article for the special collection, 'Reflections on yaoi space and yaoi time: east and west, yesterday and tomorrow'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, Mary Vipond describes how and why she developed an interest in the history of English-Canadian cultural nationalism and radio broadcasting. As a cultural historian in a discipline oriented toward political and, later, social history, a woman in a male-dominated profession, and an anglophone in Quebec, she remembers the mix of luck, curiosity, and opportunity that enabled her to fulfil both her personal and academic goals. She ends with a call for more historical study of media structures and representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including improving relations between French and English-speaking Canadians, food culture in Canada and equality of women in Canada.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including improving relations between French and English-speaking Canadians, food culture in Canada and equality of women in Canada.

New TFP estimates drawn from the neglected census of 1831 for Lower Canada are used to test the controversial (but still dominant) traditional “poor French farmers” explanation for a prolonged economic crisis. The new evidence shows that French-speaking areas were equally as productive as English-speaking areas, something that upturns the established consensus and reinforces the minority viewpoint that culture had little to do with the crisis. Using a broad range of controls, the researchers find that this conclusion is robust and that other variables such as settlement recency, environment, and economic structure were much more significant determinants of TFP. These results warrant the abandonment of the cultural explanation and a shift toward other explanatory channels. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper explores the rarely addressed subject of linguistic majority in the context of Canadian society, through a qualitative analysis of 20 semi-directed interviews with majority Anglophone participants. It was found that while participants acknowledged a certain form of privilege related to their majority status within Canadian society, it was also common for them to experience situations in which they felt overlooked, marginalized and even discriminated against. "Linguistic privilege" has not been the subject of more studies because it is often seen as a "default", taken-for-granted status in Canadian society. However, studying this form of privilege and its intersections with other dimensions of identity such as gender, class and race could lead to new insights on language, power and group identity. Moreover, studies on "the majority" are especially pertinent in a context where "silent majorities" are becoming increasingly vocal in stating their dissatisfaction and feelings of discrimination. This article can provide pathways to a better understanding of this emergent issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has been well documented that family meals are on the decline. However, little is known about time use relatively on the time spent on meal between Anglophones and Francophones in Canada. The main objective of this study is to explore time spent on meals at home, with consideration of education levels and family types between Anglophones and Francophones (thirty to sixty years of age). Data from the "General Social Survey" (1992, 1998, 2005, and 2010) were analyzed. Results indicated that the time spent on meals declined for both Anglophones and Francophone from 1992 to 2010. However, Francophones appeared willing to spend much more time on meals at home than Anglophones. Men and women with higher education spent more times on meals than lower education. Findings of the current analyses also showed that family type (i.e., living alone, single-parent, couple-only, and two-parent) makes difference for the amount of time spent on meals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crisis mapping has emerged as a method of connecting and empowering citizens during emergencies. This article explores the hyperbole behind crisis mapping as it extends into more long-term or ‘chronic’ community development practices. We critically examined developer issues and participant (i.e. community organization) usage within the context of local communities. We repurposed the predominant crisis mapping platform Crowdmap for three cases of community development in Canadian anglophone and francophone. Our case studies show mixed results about the actual cost of deployment, the results of disintermediation, and local context with the mapping application. Lastly, we discuss the relationship of hype, temporality, and community development as expressed in our cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on omissions and revisions in history curriculum in Quebec. Topics discussed include removal of word 'citizenship' from the course title and struggles and contributions of Quebec's various minority communities; crimes of the British regime and the English merchant class on Anglophones; and problems with the representation of First Nations people in the curriculum.

The purpose of the present study was to explore whether visual rhetorical figures are used differently when addressing Anglophone and Francophone target groups in Canada. For the empirical analysis I applied the method of content analysis to a corpus of advertisements drawn from two Canadian women's magazines, the Anglophone magazine Chatelaine and the Francophone magazine Châtelaine. As analytical construct I used the typology of visual rhetorical figures developed by Phillips and McQuarrie (2004). The results reveal that French Canadian advertisements appear to apply significantly more visual rhetorical figures than English Canadian advertisements. Practical implications for marketers are given and avenues for further research are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: Although Canada decriminalized abortion in 1988, significant disparities in access to services and an uneven geographic distribution of providers persists. Health Canada registered mifepristone, the gold standard of medication abortion, in July 2015. Our study explored Canadian women's knowledge of, interest in, and perspectives on mifepristone prior to registration.Methods: From November 2012 through July 2015 we conducted in-depth interviews with 174 Anglophone and Francophone women from Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec about their abortion experiences and their opinions about medication abortion. We purposively recruited participants from different age cohorts and different regions within each study province to explore a range of perspectives. We analyzed these interviews for content and themes related to mifepristone using both deductive and inductive analytic techniques.Results: The overwhelming majority of participants had no knowledge of mifepristone at the time of the interview. However, after providing a brief description of an evidence-based mifepristone/misoprostol regimen, more than half of the participants reported that they would have considered this method had it been available at the time of their abortion and most would have been comfortable receiving medication abortion care from a family physician or nurse practitioner. Most women supported the approval of mifepristone and felt Canadian women would benefit from having more options for early pregnancy termination.Conclusion: Although knowledge of mifepristone among recent abortion patients was low, considerable interest in medication abortion exists. Expanding awareness-raising efforts and supporting the approval of evidence-based regimens and provision of mifepristone appears warranted.Implications: The approval and introduction of mifepristone for early abortion in Canada promises to increase options and access. Creating tailored and culturally and contextually resonant messages about mifepristone is of high priority. Promoting evidence-based protocols and the inclusion of a full range of qualified professionals in service provision is also warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article argues that Anglophone works on Chinese democracy have tended to build their analyses on assumptions that tradition is either (1) a premodern phenomenon unrelated to China’s democratization process, (2) a hindrance that should be gotten rid of if China is to democratize, (3) a static phenomenon that cannot but appear antiquated with regard to a dynamic, fast-paced modern China, or (4) an object from which modern agents can freely draw. In order to challenge these assumptions, this article suggests that modernity and democracy were translated into a Chinese milieu already ripe with Gadamerian prejudices: prejudices that not only modified the meaning of modernity and democracy, but also provided the very conditions without which modernity and democracy would not have been meaningful or understood at all. Max Ko-wu Huang’s work can contribute to our understanding of the role played by various traditions in the process of translating democracy during the transitional period of modern China (1895–1925). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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This paper examines an Anglophonic corpus of institutional holdup notes (n=29) recovered by robbery detectives in a single Canadian city over a twenty-year period. Moreover, it examines how the recurrence of specific lexical structures in written content reflects a given offender's awareness of his social position relative to both his victim and the institution where a robbery is committed. By disaggregating holdup notes into three distinct categories based on written content, it is argued that these categories reflect the willingness of perpetrators to adjust the content of these notes through a process of linguistic code switching that both enables and expedites the completion of the offence. It is additionally argued that the perceived formality of the institution targeted by perpetrators has an unconscious but direct bearing on the formality and structure of their writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with Merrill Swain, Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto, is presented. Topics discussed include French immersion in Canada, Anglophone parents who are interested in French language for their children, and the percentage of French immersion schools in Canada.

This article explores theoretical dimensions of voice in retranslation in postcolonial situations through a contextualized analysis of extra-textual and intratextual voices in the English-Canadian translation and retranslation of Prochain épisode, Hubert Aquin's 1965 political novel on Québec's independence from Canada. The three decades between the translations are marked by important social, political and cultural changes in both source and target language communities: from the 1960s turmoil with respect to Québec's aspirations for independence to a certain political fatigue in both groups in the 2000s, from a focus within Québec letters on a national agenda to other aesthetic and cultural concerns, and from a colonial to a postcolonial editorial context in both Anglophone and Francophone literatures in Canada. What may appear as target culture recuperative strategies in the editorial and translatorial positioning of a retranslation may correspond on closer analysis to parallel changes in the source culture reception of the book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]