French text messages

From SMS data collection to preliminary analysis

Rachel Panckhurst | Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS & Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Claudine Moïse | Lidilem, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3

Over a three-month period (spanning 15 September to 15 December 2011), over 90,000 authentic text messages in French were collected by a group of academics in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. This paper retraces the organisation of the data collection, the elaboration of the sociolinguistic questionnaire that donors were invited to fill out, text message data processing procedures and preliminary results. A shift 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. This whole process is important for understanding in-depth interactional practices within contemporary digital textuality and should provide insight for pluri-disciplinary approaches.

Published online: 08 July 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.61.09pan

Cited by

Cited by 1 other publications

Panckhurst, Rachel

2016. A digital corpus resource of authentic anonymized French text messages: 88milSMS—What about transcoding and linguistic annotation?. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities ► pp. fqw049 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 10 september 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.