Louise-Amélie Cougnon

Social media, spontaneous writing and dictation. Spelling variation

This study investigates the hypothesis of young people having the multi-skills required to switch between formal and informal communication. We collected samples of the written output of students across different media and communication situations. The results obtained through dictation tests show that the students’ level is relatively low, with a majority of grammatical errors. The analysis of linguistic forms common to the corpora indicates that all the participants use traditional spelling in at least one of them. Lastly, we present a qualitative analysis of spelling variation and an overview of the teenagers’ linguistic representations.

Néologie et sms

Cet article livre un apercu des potentialites de recherche en linguistique que peut reveler un corpus de sms, en exploitant la voie de la neologie. Apres avoir circonscrit et defini la notion d’ecrit sms, les auteurs presentent les corpus francophones etudies ainsi que la methodologie d’extraction precise qui a mene a plus d’une centaine de candidats, propres au contexte de la communication mediee par ordinateur. Ces candidats sont ensuite detailles et analyses selon leur provenance geographique, leur procede de creation et leur contexte d’apparition.