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Never detached from its performance (which is also its symbolic function), speech is addressed: it goes from one to the other, regardless of the value of what it says, which cannot be dissociated from its value as tessera. It is the fate of speech to pass, to circulate, to create bonds, to be taken up again and again, to be repeated, reported, distorted. The fact that speech is oral does not mean that it is the opposite of writing or the letter. For the Bible, speech is writing made flesh, as Ezekiel, and John at Patmos, show us. Speech is that outside that speaks itself inside me. After quickly passing over the work of Jacques Ferron and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, this article analyzes the status of speech in the work of Gilbert La Rocque. In La Rocque's writing, magnetized by the shadow mouth of the maternal, the “inter-dit”—meaning in French both “what is forbidden” and “said in between”—cannot be dissociated from “le dire,” “the saying,” which the subject takes up against his or her own death. For La Rocque, moments when the past rises up are heard as prosodic islands that return like a multiplicity of the “I” that hears them and relates them. Memory does not save us: it is what, in the speaking voice, bears witness to the immanent violence of the Other.
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This article investigates the translation of breaches of Gricean maxims (and other constraints on interaction) in situations where the “same” maxim/constraint displays different normative strengths within two cultures. It is argued that if a breach of such constraints is transferred directly, the result will be a different degree of attention-getting effect and a possible change in the implicature in the target text. This point is illustrated by the analysis of the Norwegian translation of the Irish novel The Commitments. Here the translator perhaps unwittingly ignores the fact that the “swearing constraint” is stronger in Norwegian than in Irish English. Many of the breaches are transferred more or less directly, which means that the translation contains a number of potential shifts: the potential attention-getting effect is far stronger, and the (social) implicature is most likely skewed, at least for a generalized segment of the audience.
Keywords: Grice, maxims, flouting of maxims, social implicature, swearing, Grice, maximes, viol / transgression des maximes, implicature sociale, jurons
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This article proposes a new strategy to dispel the skeptical conclusion put forward by Thomas Szasz that psychiatry is illegitimate. The skeptical conclusion is based on a radical demarcation between mental and somatic disorders. To minimize this demarcation, Jerome Wakefield uses a conceptual analysis stating that both mental and somatic disorders are harmful dysfunctions. Recent reviews, however, have shown that his analysis stumbles over the practical difficulty of distinguishing normal functions from dysfunctions. Because of this problem, Wakefield's analysis does not rule out the skeptical conclusion. A new strategy that does not require solving the problem recognized by these critics is therefore preferable to rule out the skeptical conclusion.
Keywords: Troubles mentaux, Wakefield, Szasz, problème de l'indétermination, analyse conceptuelle, Mental disorders, Wakefield, Szasz, function indeterminacy problem, conceptual analysis
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This study argues against the contemporary project of acquiring the legal status of marriage for samesex unions. The preparatory normative approach identifies the religious wrong and the moral unacceptability of samesex sexual activity and liaisons. Legal norms are then superimposed to argue that, while criminalizing homosexual conduct is not now appropriate, the balance of public benefit weighs in favour of preventing samesex marriage, at least by not promoting it as giving it legal status would do. Most pointedly, this treatment is not excluded as a violation of rights, neither a right to freedom of association, nor a right to protection from discrimination, nor a right to equality.
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AbstractChild pornography has existed for a long time but has become more easily available since the arrival of the Internet. This study aims at describing the characteristics of persons arrested for a crime of child pornography in the province of Québec between 1998 and 2004. The final sample consists of 192 persons. A cluster analysis performed on various variables provided us with three distinct groups : the explorer, the pervert (isolated or organized) and the polymorph. These groups are mainly distinct on age, the technology used and their criminal career. The polymorphs, though they are less numerous, have the most important history of conviction in sexual and non-sexual crimes. This latest group possesses also a varied life history of crime. Limitations of the results are discussed in the conclusion.
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The present article takes an interest in the situation of girls who appeared before the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents' Court and who were sent to the Good Shepherd of Angers institutions from 1912 to 1949. Our analysis will mainly focus on the concept of incorrigibility used to bring some delinquent girls before the Juvenile Delinquents' Court, and to justify their institutionalization. By analyzing the trajectory of some of these incorrigible girls, we want to seize the concerns at the origin of this institutionalization process and we shall describe the forms of treatment which were privileged to handle these girls in the Good Shepherd of Angers institutions.
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Issues related to children – such as a woman's reproductive abilities or a man's ability to provide material comfort to his family – are frequently presented as factors influencing (heterosexual) individuals to choose intimate relationships where the man is older. However, few researchers have investigated the lived experiences of individuals invested in age-hypogamous intimate relationships – i.e. relationships where the woman is older than her male partner. Therefore, it is unclear whether these themes actually affect the longevity of such relationships and if so, how they affect them. Drawing on 55 semi-structured interviews with women aged 30-60 who date younger men, I explore in this article their perspective regarding the way issues related to children influence the development of their age-hypogamous intimate relationships. Results show that in the context of age-hypogamous dating, this theme does influence women's choices and it is perceived mainly as an obstacle to the development and sustainability of their relationships. Specifically, the (perceived) biological limitations of female fertility as well as younger men's (perceived) relationship to coupledom and parenthood are seen by women as complicating their ability to develop long-term relationships with younger men. Few women reported younger men's (in)ability to offer material comfort to his family as an obstacle to the longevity of age-hypogamous intimate relationships.
Keywords: Écart d'âge, relation amoureuse, parentalité, fertilité, rapports sociaux de sexe, rôles de genre, Age differences, Romantic relationships, Parenthood, Fertility, Gendered social roles, Diferencia de edad, Relación amorosa, Parentalidad, Fertilidad, Relaciones sociales de sexo, Roles de género