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Or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices As Cultural Weaponry
Intersections of Memory, Ancestral Language, and Imagination; or, the Textual Production of Michif Voices as Cultural Weaponry Pamela V. Sing n his overview of the historic origins in modern thought of ideas playing a central role in the current debate over matters of iden- tity and recognition, Charles Taylor emphasizes that, whether it is a Iquestion of individual or of collective identity, “we become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression” (32). Languages, in this context, signify modes of expression used to iden- tify ourselves, including those of art and literature, and all evolve, are de- veloped, and are acquired in a dialogical manner — that is to say, through exchanges with others. By underscoring the socially derived character of identity, this perspective explains the importance of external recognition, both on an individual basis and on a cultural one. In this article, I intend to focus on an aesthetic that, grounded in memory, demonstrates and requests recognition for a particular type of “love of words.” The words in question belong to Michif, an oral ancestral language that, despite (or perhaps because of) its endangered status, proves to be a powerful identity symbol. Relegated to an underground existence during the latter part of the nineteenth century, the resurgence of Michif words and expressions in literary texts reminds the community to which they belong, and that they are telling (back) into existence, of its historic, cultural, and linguistic sources, thus re-laying claim to a specific and distinct, but unrecognized space on the Canadian word/landscape. -
Québec French in Florida: North American Francophone Language Practices on the Road
Québec French in Florida: North American Francophone Language Practices on the Road HÉLÈNE BLONDEAU Introduction Most of the sociolinguistic research on French in North America has focused on stable speech communities and long-established francophone groups in Canada or in the US, including Franco-Americans, Cajuns, Québécois and Acadians.1 However, since mobility has become an integral part of an increasingly globalized society, research on the language practices of transient groups of speakers is crucial for a better understanding of twenty-first-century francophone North America. The current article sheds light on the language practices of a group of speakers who experience a high degree of mobility and regular back-and-forth contact between francophone Canada and the US: francophone peoples of Québécois origin who move in and out of South Florida. For years, Florida has been a destination for many Canadians, some of whom have French as their mother tongue. A significant number of these people are part of the so-called “snowbird” population, a group that regularly travels south in an attempt to escape the rigorous northern winter. Snowbirds stay in the Sunshine State only temporarily. Others have established themselves in the US permanently, forming the first generation of Canado-Floridians, and another segment of the population is comprised of second-generation immigrants. By studying the language practices of such speakers, we can document the status of a mobile francophone group that has been largely under-examined in the body of research on French in North America. In this case, the mobility involves the crossing of national borders, and members of this community come in contact with English through their interactions with the American population in Florida. -
French in Québec: a Standard to Be Described and Uses to Be Prioritized
The French Language in Québec: 400 Years of History and Life Part Four II – French a Shared Language Chapter 13 – Which Language for the Future? 52. French in Québec: A Standard to be Described and Uses to Be Prioritized PIERRE MARTEL and HÉLÈNE CAJOLET-LAGANIÈRE The Evolution of the Standard for Written and Spoken French in Québec For more than two centuries, Québécois have lived in a twofold linguistic insecurity. On the one hand, French was rendered a second-class language by English, which was widely dominant in a number of social spheres and, on the other, its status was undermined compared to the French of France, the one and only benchmark. The “ Joual dispute” of the 1960s and 1970s crystallized opinions around a simplistic alternative: either the language of Québécois was the French of France (most usually termed International French 1, chiefly in order to indicate no dependence on the mother country), in which case every effort would have to be made to conform to it on every point, or else theirs was the popular language of those who were little educated, that is, vernacular speech, stigmatized by the term “ Joual ,” which some associated with the very identity of the Québécois. This black and white representation of the state of our language was ideological and unrealistic. It was as if French was made up of only a “standard” level, the correct written usage, and as if Québec French had only one language level, the vernacular, and even the lax and vulgar language. The Charter of the French Language, promulgated in 1977, contained no provision aimed at defining “French in Québec,” the “standard” or the “quality of the language.” However, the 1 The French Language in Québec: 400 Years of History and Life Part Four II – French a Shared Language Chapter 13 – Which Language for the Future? Policy Statement that gave birth to the Charter drew attention to the necessity of having a quality language. -
Language Projections for Canada, 2011 to 2036
Catalogue no. 89-657-X2017001 ISBN 978-0-660-06842-8 Ethnicity, Language and Immigration Thematic Series Language Projections for Canada, 2011 to 2036 by René Houle and Jean-Pierre Corbeil Release date: January 25, 2017 How to obtain more information For information about this product or the wide range of services and data available from Statistics Canada, visit our website, www.statcan.gc.ca. You can also contact us by email at [email protected] telephone, from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the following numbers: • Statistical Information Service 1-800-263-1136 • National telecommunications device for the hearing impaired 1-800-363-7629 • Fax line 1-514-283-9350 Depository Services Program • Inquiries line 1-800-635-7943 • Fax line 1-800-565-7757 Standards of service to the public Standard table symbols Statistics Canada is committed to serving its clients in a prompt, The following symbols are used in Statistics Canada reliable and courteous manner. To this end, Statistics Canada has publications: developed standards of service that its employees observe. To . not available for any reference period obtain a copy of these service standards, please contact Statistics .. not available for a specific reference period Canada toll-free at 1-800-263-1136. The service standards are ... not applicable also published on www.statcan.gc.ca under “Contact us” > 0 true zero or a value rounded to zero “Standards of service to the public.” 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded p preliminary Note of appreciation r revised Canada owes the success of its statistical system to a x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements long-standing partnership between Statistics Canada, the of the Statistics Act citizens of Canada, its businesses, governments and other E use with caution institutions. -
Quebec Women and Legislative Representation
Quebec Women and Legislative Representation Manon Tremblay Quebec Women and Legislative Representation TRANSLATED BY KÄTHE ROTH © UBC Press 2010 Originally published as Québécoises et représentation parlementaire © Les Presses de l’Université Laval 2005. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of the publisher, or, in Canada, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), www.accesscopyright.ca. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in Canada on FSC-certified ancient-forest-free paper (100% post-consumer recycled) that is processed chlorine- and acid-free. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tremblay, Manon, 1964- Quebec women and legislative representation / written by Manon Tremblay ; translated by Käthe Roth. Originally published in French under title: Québécoises et représentation parlementaire. ISBN 978-0-7748-1768-4 1. Women legislators – Québec (Province). 2. Women in politics – Québec (Province). 3. Representative government and representation – Canada. 4. Legislative bodies – Canada. I. Roth, Käthe II. Title. HQ1236.5.C2T74513 2010 320.082’09714 C2009-903402-6 UBC Press gratefully acknowledges the financial support for our publishing program of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), and of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. -
Journal Des Débats
journal des Débats Le jeudi 13 mars 1980 Vol. 21 — No 93 Table des matières Dépôt de documents Rapport annuel de la Société québécoise d'initiatives pétrolières 5215 Questions orales des députés Participation des fonctionnaires à la campagne référendaire 5215 Grève des cols bleus de Montréal 5217 Occupation des locaux de la Direction générale des pêches, à Gaspé 5219 Des pressions ont-elles été faites pour utiliser les services d'une société particulière? 5221 Fluoration des eaux de consommation 5222 Propos sur l'incident qui a nécessité la suspension des travaux 5224 Avis à la Chambre 5226 Affaires du jour Motion privilégiée relative à la question devant faire l'objet d'une consultation populaire sur une nouvelle entente avec le Canada 5226 Reprise du débat sur la motion principale, les deux motions d'amendement et la motion de sous-amendement 5226 M. Pierre Marois 5226 M. Jean-Claude Rivest 5229 M. Rodrigue Biron 5232 Motion d'amendement 5233 M. Gérald Godin 5234 M. Raymond Mailloux 5236 M.Denis de Belleval 5238 M. Camille Laurin 5239 M. Fernand Lalonde 5242 M. Guy Joron 5243 M. André Raynauld 5244 M. Yves Bérubé 5245 M. Richard Guay . 5245 M. Adrien Ouellette 5247 M. Richard Verreault 5249 M. Guy Tardif 5251 M. Yvon Brochu 5254 M. Charles Lefebvre 5257 M. Jules Boucher 5259 M. Claude Dubois 5261 Ajournement 5264 5215 (Quatorze heures dix minutes) Est-ce qu'ils auront le droit de s'impliquer publi- quement? Est-ce qu'ils auront le droit, s'il leur est Le Président: A l'ordre, mesdames et mes- demandé de faire un travail plus intense, de se sieurs! prévaloir de la règle du congé sans solde pendant Un moment de recueillement. -
Loan Verb Integration in Michif
journal of language contact 12 (2019) 27-51 brill.com/jlc Loan Verb Integration in Michif Anton Antonov inalco-crlao, paris [email protected] Abstract This paper looks at the different ways French (and English) loan verbs are being inte- grated in Michif, a mixed language (the noun system is French, the verbal one is Cree) based upon two dictionaries of the language. The detailed study of the available data has shown that loan verbs are almost exclusively assigned to the vai class, i.e. a class of verbs whose single core argument is animate. This seems natural enough given that the overwhelming majority of them do have an animate core participant in the donor language as well. Still, quite a few of them can be transitive. This is accounted for by claiming that vai is the most ‘neutral’ inflectional class of Cree as far as morphology and argument structure are concerned as verbs in this class can be syntactically both intransitive and transitive. Finally, all of the loan verbs examined have Cree equivalents and so the claim that they were borrowed because of the lack of a corresponding Cree verb in the language is difficult to accept at face value. Keywords loan verbs – valency – transitivity – animacy – direct/inverse – hierarchical agreement – Algonquian – Cree – Michif 1 Introduction This paper deals with French and English loan verbs in Michif, and in particu- lar the ways in which they have been integrated into the almost exclusively Cree (i.e. Algonquian) verbal system of that language. It is especially con- cerned with the ways in which the argument structure of the original verb has been mapped onto the existing valency patterns. -
INTRODUCTION: When Listening to Both French and Quebec French, It Is Likely That You Will Notice a Difference in the Way They Sp
French and Quebec French: Are They the Same Language? INTRODUCTION: When listening to both French GRAMMATICAL DIFFERENCES: PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES: -Quebec French is characterized by a “freer” use of Quebec French has more vowel sounds than and Quebec French, it is likely that you will notice grammatical rules. For instance many Canadian French Parisian French. For a difference in the way they speak, whether you suppress articles: “à ce soir” (literal translation:" see you instance, /a/ and /ɑ/, /ɛ/ and /ɛː/, /ø/ and /ə/, know French or not. While the difference in accent this night"), would become “à soir”, dropping the article /ɛ/̃ and /œ̃ / are pronounced different in Quebec is the most noticeable difference between both “ce" ("this"). French while it is not the case anymore in standard French. languages, linguists argue that there are way more -Many Québec French also remove prepositions from features that differentiate French and Québec their utterances. For French. example,:"voici le chien dont tu dois t’occuper" (this is the dog you must take care of"), would become: "voici le chien à t'occuper", (this is the dog to take care of). EXAMPLE OF THE DIFFERENCES QUICK HISTORICAL FACTS: 7,2 million Canadians are French speaking natives (20% of the Canadian population). Although English is the most spoken language u Canada, Quebec French VOCABULARY DIFFERENCES: is known for being a French speaking province since the 17th century. While at the beginning of the 1800s, Canadian French There is a huge paradox regarding anglicism in Quebec was identical to Parisian French, it started to change during French. -
French Language in the Americas: Quebec, Acadia, and Louisiana
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal Volume 5 Issue 2 Article 4 June 2018 French Language in the Americas: Quebec, Acadia, and Louisiana Katelyn Gross University of Minnesota, Morris Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/horizons Part of the French Linguistics Commons Recommended Citation Gross, Katelyn (2018) "French Language in the Americas: Quebec, Acadia, and Louisiana," Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal: Vol. 5 : Iss. 2 , Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/horizons/vol5/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal by an authorized editor of University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Gross: French Language in the Americas Katelyn Gross 1 French Language in the Americas: Quebec, Acadia, and Louisiana Katelyn Gross The French language underwent many changes between the development of French from Latin, to Old French, and to Middle French. French would continue to develop inside of France thereafter, but the French language would also be exported to other parts of the world and those varieties of French would have their own characteristic changes. French explorers and colonizers moved into the Americas, permanently settling what is today Quebec, many parts of Canada, and Louisiana in the United States. In this paper, I will focus on the linguistic differences between metropolitan France and French spoken in Quebec, Acadia, and Louisiana. -
The Legality of an Independent Quebec: Canadian Constitutional Law and Self-Determination in International Law Marc A
Boston College International and Comparative Law Review Volume 3 | Issue 1 Article 6 12-1-1979 The Legality of an Independent Quebec: Canadian Constitutional Law and Self-Determination in International Law Marc A. Thibodeau Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Marc A. Thibodeau, The Legality of an Independent Quebec: Canadian Constitutional Law and Self-Determination in International Law, 3 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 99 (1979), http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol3/iss1/6 This Notes is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College International and Comparative Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Legality of an Independent Quebec: Canadian Constitutional Law and Self Determination in International Law I. INTRODUCTION Since the signing of the Treaty of Paris (Treaty) on February 10, 1763,1 which formalized the British position in Canada and in other lands on the North American continent,2 members of the French-Canadian community, 1. Definitive Treaty of Peace Between France, Great Britain and Spain, Feb. 10, 1763, Great Britain-France-Spain, 42 Parry's T.S. 320. The Treaty settled various territorial disputes at the conclusion of the War of 1756-63 (Seven Year's War). As part of the settlements, the King of France ceded to Great Britain all of its possessions in Canada. -
Camille Laurin Déjeuner-Conférence Du 15 Septembre 2016 Comité Des Femmes Anciennes Parlementaires TABLE DES MATIÈRES
VOLUME 18, NUMÉRO 1, JANVIER 2017 LE TEMPS DE PAROLE Hommage à Camille Laurin Déjeuner-conférence du 15 septembre 2016 Comité des femmes anciennes parlementaires TABLE DES MATIÈRES EN COUVERTURE 3 Mot du rédacteur 4 Mot du président Camille Laurin est né à Charlemagne, le 6 mai 1922. Il est le fils HOMMAGE À CAMILLE LAURIN d’Éloi Laurin, commerçant, et de Mary Morin. législature, 1994. 6 Camille Laurin, l’homme debout e Il a étudié aux écoles Saint-Simon et Saint-Jude, à Charlemagne, et au Collège de l’Assomption. De 1942 à 1949, il poursuit des études 8 Cent une fois merci Camille! en médecine à l’Université de Montréal. Après l’obtention de son 10 L’ultime débat sur la Charte doctorat en médecine en 1950, il est médecin résident pendant un de la langue française an au Queen Mary Veteran’s Hospital. Boursier du gouvernement 12 Camille Laurin, homme de liberté du Québec, il se spécialise en psychiatrie au Boston State Hospital de l’été 1951 à avril 1953. Par la suite, il obtient une bourse du 14 Rencontre avec Camille Laurin Fonds Assemblée nationale du Québec. Photo : Daniel Lessard. Photographie officielle de la 35 gouvernement du Canada et s’installe à Paris en juin 1953 pour se 16 La langue débattue : survol historique spécialiser à l’Institut de psychanalyse de France. de la législation linguistique au Québec Directeur du journal étudiant Le Quartier latin en 1947. Il travaille pour l’Entraide universitaire AFFAIRES COURANTES internationale, à Genève, en 1948 et en 1949. Il fonde la revue University à la fin des années 1940. -
Impacts De La Loi 101 Sur La Culture Politique Au Québec De 1977 À 1997
UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL IMPACTS DE LA LOI 101 SUR LA CULTURE POLITIQUE AU QUÉBEC DE 1977 À 1997 MÉMOIRE PRÉSENTÉ COMME EXIGENCE PARTIELLE DE LA MAÎTRISE EN HISTOIRE PAR PIERRE-LUC BILODEAU AVRIL 2016 UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL Service des bibliothèques Avertissement La diffusion de ce mémoire se fait dans le respect des droits de son auteur, qui a signé le formulaire Autorisation de reproduire et de diffuser un travail de recherche de cycles supérieurs (SDU-522- Rév.07-2011). Cette autorisation stipule que «conformément à l'article 11 du Règlement no 8 des études de cycles supérieurs, [l'auteur] concède à l'Université du Québec à Montréal une licence non exclusive d'utilisation et de publication de la totalité ou d'une partie importante de [son] travail de recherche pour des fins pédagogiques et noh commerciales. Plus précisément, [l'auteur] autorise l'Université du Québec à Montréal à reproduire, diffuser, prêter, distribuer ou vendre des copies de [son] travail de recherche à des fins non commerciales sur quelque support que ce soit, y compris l'Internet. Cette licence et cette autorisation n'entraînent pas une renonciation de [la] part [de l'auteur] à [ses] droits moraux ni à [ses] droits de propriété intellectuelle. Sauf entente contraire, [l'auteur] conserve la liberté de diffuser et de commercialiser ou non ce travail dont [il] possède un exemplaire.» RÉSUMÉ La Charte de la langue française, également connue sous le nom de loi 101, survient à la suite de plusieurs années de tensions sur le plan linguistique. Celle-ci fait basculer les francophones québécois du statut de groupe minoritaire à celui de majoritaire.