« French text messages. From SMS data collection to preliminary analysis »
Résumé
Over a three-month period (spanning 15 September to 15 December 2011), over 90,000 authen- tic text messages in French were collected by a group of academics in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. is paper retraces the organisation of the data collection, the elaboration of the sociolinguistic questionnaire that donors were invited to ll out, text message data pro- cessing procedures and preliminary results. A shi from individual “isolated” text messages to “conversational” SMS exchanges is then studied, in preparation for a new SMS conversational data collection which is due to take place in the near future. is whole process is important for understanding in-depth interactional practices within contemporary digital textuality and should provide insight for pluri-disciplinary approaches.
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