Le rapport Durham en traduction : paradigmes discursifs.

The author undertakes a comparative analysis of the ideological networks that run through and shape each of the three French translations (1839, 1948, 1969) of Lord Durham's Report. He endeavours to explain how the different ideological currents which contributed to the development of social discourse in Quebec since the uprisings of the Patriotes in 1837-38 and the publication of Lord Durham's Report in 1839, become inscribed in the 150 years or so of the history of Lord Durham's Report in translation. The third chapter of the author's thesis examines the antagonistic relation in Lower Canada between the French and the English as it presents itself in the composition of the different translations of Lord Durham's Report. The diachronic invariant that can be singled out tends toward an ideological presupposition that he calls "conquetisme" and which has the Conquest as a specific object of discourse.

Master's Thesis

Université d'Ottawa

Ottawa, ON

1993

viii-142p.

fr