Law, rhetoric and irony in the formation of Canadian civil culture
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Book
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ISBN 10
0802081193
ISBN 13
9780802081193
Category
Canadian History
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Publication Year
2002
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Pages
xiv, 359 pages
Subject
Civil society
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Abstract
Canada's lack of a revolutionary past has left it without recourse to revolutionary language in its political rhetoric. This "inarticulateness" in a self-consciously revolutionary age results in a problem of being over-burdened with the past, argue Dorland (journalism and communication, Carleton U., Canada) and Charland (communication studies, Concordia U., Canada). They attempt to explore the interactions of past waves of discourse from the Canada's French and English past and the uses to which they have been put in Parliament, the courts, and the public sphere. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Envoi -- Situating Canada's Civil Culture -- 'Who Killed Canadian History?' The Uses and Abuses of Canadian Historiography -- The Legitimacy of Conquest: Issues in the Transition of Legal Regimes, 1760s-1840s -- Constituting Constitutions under the British Regime, 1763-1867 -- The Limits of Law: The North-West, Riel, and the Expansion of Anglo-Canadian Institutions, 1869-1885 -- 'Impious Civility': Woman's Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929 -- The Dialectic of Language, Law, and Translation: Manitoba and Quebec Revisited, 1969-1999 -- Civility, Its Discontents, and the Performance of Social Appearance -- The Figures of Authority in Canadian Civil Culture.
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