Vers une classification toponymique des pseudonymes en français tchaté
To a toponymic classification of nicknames in French chats

Author(s): Jan Lazar
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Internet;chat;nickname;toponym;toponymy
Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on toponyms forming the nicknames used by Internet users, especially in the context of real time communication on the Internet, which means communication on chats. The main aim of this article is to suggest a classification of nicknames formed from a toponym, as well as to bring their exact quantification in this particular type of electronic communication. A huge richness of nicknames is illustrated by the concrete examples taken from the corpus.

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