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Social media, spontaneous writing and dictation. Spelling variation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2016

LOUISE-AMELIE COUGNON ,
LENAIS MASKENS ,
SOPHIE ROEKHAUT  and
CEDRICK FAIRON
LOUISE-AMELIE COUGNON*
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain
LENAIS MASKENS
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain
SOPHIE ROEKHAUT
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain
CEDRICK FAIRON
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain
*
Address for correspondence: Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres - CENTAL, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium e-mail: louise-amelie.cougnon@uclouvain.be
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Abstract

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.

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 309 - 327
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