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The analyzing of various emotions expressed via the Internet allows the observer to see the profound divide between discursive strategies of media professionals, especially journalists, and the citizen communication practices.As far as verbalizing emotions is concerned, the journalist uses euphemisms while the opinions voiced by the Internet users are frequently accompanied by dysphemisms. In order to illustrate this situation, we will compare comments made by professional journalists with those of the Internet users regarding the conduct of the French football player Samir Nasri. Nasri, who twice insulted a journalist during the UEFA Euro 2012, aroused strong emotions which each of the two groups in question verbalized in its own way.
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The object of this paper is to analyze the lexicon of the chat conversations which is characterized by the great feeling of wanting to belong to the chat group community. The identity and crypto-recreational functions of the chat are visible through the analyzed phenomena like truncation with apocope, clipping and syncope, loans from English and also the creation of rebus and graphic games. All this constitutes a real transgression of the conventional orthography, at the same time that allows a great pleasure playing with the language. It really represents a new way of transcribing words using less space, that is better adapted to the principles of time and space saving. These rebus and graphic games are a particular case of identity expression by the chat users. The recreational aspect of this language allows the community to develop and enrich it continuously.
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Young people use a variety of lexicon in their atypical written French language, which we can observe in the weblogs from skyrock.com. In this paper, we describe the variety of the vocabulary used. We classify the different kinds of lexicon, we explain how some words and phrases are built, with their specific mechanisms, and we especially analyse how young people use some words of their own.
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