Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016–2019). Its mandate: to identify the systemic causes of violence and produce effective recommendations to remedy them. From its announcement and during the course of its work, the inquiry faced a great deal of criticism, particularly from families and Indigenous women's associations, undermining the trust of many in the commissioners and in the process. It was thus against the backdrop of those brewing tensions that many people affected by the violence came forward to tell their stories at community hearings held across the country. As we consider public testimony to be a vector of social agency for these witnesses, we ask how external critiques conveyed in the media sphere influenced these narrative spaces internal to the inquiry. Through the use of computer-assisted text analysis (based in textometry) applied on a corpus of transcripts from the fifteen community hearings, we were able to identify the presence of certain criticisms, which occupied a relatively small space in the hearings. What's more, our explorations enabled us to reveal that witnesses bore a dual responsibility: to tell their story and to avoid downgrading the investigation in progress.

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加拿大女性与女性土著争议与暗杀的国家调查：探索外部批评的存在关系与社区观众的言论奖

面对加拿大原住民妇女、女童和 2SLGBTQQIA+ 人群失踪和被谋杀率惊人的情况，应受害者家属和原住民妇女协会的要求，加拿大政府成立了全国失踪和被谋杀原住民妇女和女童调查机构（2016-2019）。其任务是：查明暴力的系统性原因并提出有效的补救建议。自其宣布以来以及在其工作过程中，调查面临了大量批评，特别是来自家庭和土著妇女协会的批评，损害了许多人对委员和调查过程的信任。因此，正是在紧张局势不断发酵的背景下，许多受暴力影响的人在全国各地举行的社区听证会上站出来讲述他们的故事。当我们认为公开证词是这些证人社会机构的载体时，我们询问媒体领域传达的外部批评如何影响调查内部的这些叙事空间。通过对十五次社区听证会的笔录语料库应用计算机辅助文本分析（基于文本测量），我们能够识别某些批评的存在，这些批评在听证会上占据相对较小的空间。更重要的是，我们的探索使我们能够揭示证人承担着双重责任：讲述他们的故事并避免降低正在进行的调查的级别。