Le Québec anglophone: une communauté distincte du reste du Canada? : étude comparative des positions éditoriales de deux journaux anglophones - The Gazette et The Globe and Mail - en rapport avec certains débats publics au Québec et au Canada de 1976 à 1982

The author undertakes a comparative analysis of the editorials of Montreal’s The Gazette and Toronto’s The Globe and Mail during a period when, on the provincial scene, the balance of power between Quebec's two main linguistic communities, Anglophone and Francophone, was shifting and, on the federal scene, the country was undergoing a reshaping of its identity. She points out that because of being "embedded in Franco-Quebec sociality," The Gazette's discourse appears to be the result of "a continuous process of exchange, borrowing, negotiation, transmission and transformation" with the other, namely Franco-Quebecers. The author argues that by its appropriation of Franco-Quebec cultural materials, the Montreal newspaper expressed a fluid and plural affiliation, like the skin of a chameleon, adapting itself in response to circumstances and environments. Thus, depending on the political, ideological, and discursive contexts, the Gazette’s position was Québécois, Anglo-Quebecer, Canadian, or English- Canadian. She concludes that by incorporating the "Québec" variable into its editorial equation, The Gazette captured and presented the issues related to Quebec and Canadian realities with more empathy, accuracy and subtlety than did The Globe and Mail. She further concludes that without the Quebec "burden", the analyses published by The Globe and Mail were more distanced, and less insightful, with regard to the Quebec situation, partly because the Toronto newspaper did not include Quebec in its vision of Canada.

PhD dissertation

Université Laval

Québec

2022

xvii-448p.

fr