L'emploi variable des signes diacritiques dans le français tchaté : une étude variationniste en temps apparent .
Description:
After providing an historical overview of the French spelling system and orthographic variation, this study analyzes selected internal (i.e., linguistic) factors and one external (i.e., social) factor that can influence the use of diacritics in online French-language chat sessions. From a corpus of synchronous computer-mediated communication, 3,855 tokens of graphemes capable of bearing diacritics were coded with the following scheme: Letter, Diacritic, Grapheme (i.e., Letter and Diacritic comb…
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Date:
May 2010
Creator:
Al-Rashdan, Omar
Partner:
UNT Libraries