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Speaker's Page
Louise Gouëffic, B.A, B. ED, Saskatoon, linguistics - Toronto, research project – France - Aix, Paris, - Britain - London, Oxford
Address:
Sapien Books
Box 906,
Lakefield ON
K0L 2H0
Speech Title: Re-establishing the Foundation of Rationality
Objectives
- To present the principles and philosophy of re-establishing true-to-reality names for the speech-using species towards a sustainable rationality for their future
- To transmit information suppressed in patriarchal language and history
- To have participants appreciate role of true-to-reality language in morality
- To show basis of morality in inclusive true-to-reality language
- To develop skills of recognizing true-to-reality names and propositions
- To encourage participants to take ownership of true-to-reality language
- To motivate participants to reduce or eliminate false exclusive names, lies and contradictions imposed and perpetuated in patriarchal language towards a sustainable rationality for the future of the speech-using species
Research Project: Louise Gouëffic collected categorized and analyzed 20,000 items of speech across the Indo-European tradition addressing our species and its two members (male and – fe- male.) The items of speech were gleaned from hundreds of dictionaries worldwide. She looked at etymology, historical background, purpose, meaning, messages, objectives, goals, generative use, cross-cultural borrowings and modern usage of the words. She analyzed recurrent themes and recurrent linguistic techniques used in the language about the speech-using species.
In her first book Breaking the Patriarchal Code, 1996, Knowledge Ideas and Trends, Manchester CT. Gouëffic lists 10,000 items of language, tables linguistic formulas and charts techniques used in making the dominance and superiority of one gender appear to be “the way it is”.
Louise Gouëffic’s second book An Inconvenient Lie is based on the fact that the animal species that makes and uses speech consists of two genders both with the talents and abilities to make and use symbols and names to communicate. Both are necessary to the development of rationality as logic-affirming agents both contribute to establishing good reasoning and as such are the foundation of rationality. Both must affirm good reason through language to civilize the species in order to create rational society more likely to communicate moral solutions. Rational individuals make a rational and more moral society.
(The above speech title is one of many. The specialized field of language above is broad.)
Email: sapien.books@sapienbooks.ca
Conference Papers presented on the subject:
1999
- 27th Annual CIES Conference, Toronto, On
- 7th International Interdisciplinary Congress, Tromso, Norway
- Annual NWSA Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Conference on Power, Poverty and Partnership, Oxford University
1997
- 8th Symposium of the International Association of Philosophy, Boston
- 10th World Congress, CIES, Cape Town, SA
- Annual NWSA Conference, Oswego, NY
- 26th Annual CIES Conference, Ottawa
1997
- 25th Annual CIES Conference, St. John’s, NFLD
- 41st International CIES Conference, Mexico City
1996
- 24th Annual CIES Conference, Brock University, St. Catherine
- 19th OSCLG Conference, Monterey, CA
- 9th World Congress, CIES, Sydney Australia
1995
- Canadian Learned Societies Conference, Montreal
- 18th Annual OSLG Conference, Minneapolis/St. Paul
1994
- 38th Annual Conference CIES, San Diego, CA
- 17th Annual OSLG Conference, Gainesville, FL
1993
- 37th Annual CIES Conference, Kingston, Jamaica
- 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference, San Pedro, Costa Rica
- Canadian Learned Societies, Ottawa
1992
- 8th World CIES Congress, Prague, Czech Republic
- 15th CESE Conference, Dijon, France
1991
- 35th Annual CIES Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
- 5th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 15th CRIAW Conference, Edmonton, AB
1990
- 34th Annual CIES Conference, Anaheim, CA
- 4th International Interdisciplinary Congress, New York, NY
1989
Publications – Books
2011
- Mandate of Heaven, Sapien Books, Box 906, Lakefield ON K0L 2H0
- In The Name of Profit Fyg, Sapien Books, Box 906, Lakefield ON K0L 2H0
2010
- An Inconvenient Lie, Sapien Books, Box 906, Lakefield ON K0L 2H0
1996
- Breaking the Patriarchal Code, Knowledge Ideas & Trends, Manchester, CT
Nominated for the Department of Communication’s annual book award, Northern Illinois University, March 1997
CIES – Comparative and International Education Society
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