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La fragmentation de l'orthographe française : le cas de Twitter

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The enormous development of new communication technologies, especially the Internet, causes an unprecedented reversal in our lives sińce the discovery of printer. Apart from their impact on interpersonal relationships, new communication technologies have also modified our writing practices. It is evident that the French language used in computer-mediated communication digresses more and more from the developed formal speeches, in particular by its “fragmented” orthographic form which approaches its o rai form. Although this “fragmented” writing is scorned by many educated people, these orthographic variants represent, according to us, the true state of the French language as used by native speakers in everyday life and they deserve to be fully studied from the point of view of linguistics. The special case of orthographic fragmentation in the virtual space is represented by the social network Twitter which is characterized by the abridgement of the posted messages. By building a corpus of 9,000 words from Twitter, we would like to provide a detailed description of typical abbreviation processes for “fragmented” writing of Twitter users.