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The 19-2 crime drama represents a peculiar case as a Canadian police procedural television serial. Set in contemporary Montreal, its study’s interest is cultural- and linguistic-adaptive because of its narrative. The terminological point of view is also fundamental, as it emerges already in the title. On the one hand, such a televised product distinguishes itself from the other two shows described in Chaps. 4 and 5 since its format was not born as an Anglophone one. The original was a Francophone production focusing on the Québécois law enforcement environment. As formulated by Safeyaton Alias:

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    The project initially was a CBC one. After that, at the time, it was subsequently undertaken by Bravo! (Wilford, 2014).

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    Also in contrast with the Bill 101 or Charte de la langue française (Loi 101) introduced in Québéc in 1977 and sanctioning French as the official language of the Province “as well as making it the normal and habitual language of the workplace, of instruction, of communications, of commerce and of business” (Behiels & Hudon, 2015) in the ultimate effort to protect the founding Francophonicity of the territory from the devouring dominance of English (Laframboise, 2017).

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    Italics are mine for emphasis.

  4. 4.

    Italics are mine to highlight the terminology that is verbally omitted in the passage in Table 6.11 but corresponding to the performative procedure imaged onscreen. The description emphasises the relevance of specialised ‘knowledge’ (knowhow) along with specialised ‘language’, ‘discourse’ and ‘terminology’.

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