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Publication details [#66228]

Drackley, Patrick. 2019. “Je suis circonflexe”: grassroots prescriptivism and orthographic reform. Language Policy 18 (2) : 295–313.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | language planning | language policy | orthography | prescribing

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

Resting on Heyd’s (Lang Soc 43: 489–514, 2014) debate of grassroots prescriptivism, this study elucidates how French speakers on Twitter oppose the recent orthographic reform via a range of common strategies.