SMS Communication -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Seek&Hide: Anonymising a French SMS Corpus Using Natural Language Processing Techniques -- Introduction -- 1. Literature review -- 2. Seek&Hide: A system for anonymising a French corpus -- 2.1 The Automatic Phase -- 2.1.1 Purpose -- 2.1.2 Process: The Seek&Hide Algorithm -- 2.1.3 Heuristics for SMS processing -- The LRepet Algorithm -- 2.2. The Semi-automatic Phase -- 3. Experiments -- 3.1 Experimental Protocol -- 3.2. Global Analysis of the Seek&Hide Results -- 3.2.1 Method of Evaluation -- 3.2.2 Evaluation of the Seek&Hide Heuristics -- Conclusion and Future Work -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Summary -- SMS Experience and Textisms in Young Adolescents -- Introduction -- 1. Orthographic forms of SMSs (textisms) in young adolescents -- 2. Research objectives -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Procedure -- 3.4 Coding -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Different types of textisms -- 4.2 The density of textisms -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Summary -- Automatic or Controlled Writing? -- Introduction -- 1. Writing and working memory -- 2. SMS and spelling -- Objectives -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Measures -- 3.2.1 Spelling Level Test (TNO) -- 3.2.2 Questionnaire -- 3.2.3 Materials for the experimental protocol -- 4. Procedure -- 4.1 Questionnaire and TNO -- 4.2 Experimental protocol -- 4.3 Coding -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Analysis of the percentage and type of modifications -- 5.2 Analysis of the spelling modification sub-categories -- Discussion -- Aknowledgements -- References -- Summary -- Development of SMS language from 2000 to 2010 -- Introduction -- 1. The two corpora -- 1.1 Description of the online corpus -- 1.2 Compilation of my own data -- 1.2.1 Authorisation.

1.2.2 Pupils' questionnaire part A (SQ1) -- 1.2.3 Pupils' questionnaire part B (SQ2) -- 2. Comparison of the data -- 2.1 Classification of spelling adaptations -- 2.2 Coding of the databases -- 2.3 Devices used in both corpora -- 2.4 Other significant features -- 3. Conclusions -- References -- Summary -- Texto4Science -- Introduction -- 1. Design of the Texto4science Project -- 1.1 Technical Platform -- 1.2 Elaboration of an Annotation Policy -- 1.3 A Rich Annotation System -- 1.4 Diary of the Texto4science Project -- 2. Annotation System -- 2.1 Specific Units -- 2.2 Annotated Errors -- 2.3 A Quantitative View of the Annotations -- 3. Linguistic Analysis -- 3.1 SMSs are Slightly Shorter than their Normalised Counterpart -- 3.2 Abbreviations are Numerous and Ambiguous -- 3.3 On the Use of Smileys -- 3.4 Missing Annotations -- 4. Sociolinguistic Analysis -- 4.1 Contributors' Profile -- 4.1.1 Personal Information -- 4.1.2 Use of SMSs -- 4.1.3 Abilities to Write SMSs -- 4.1.4 Technical Device -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Lessons Learned -- 5.2 Ongoing Projects -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Summary -- SMS communication as plurilingual communication -- 1. Introduction: Code-switching and SMS communication -- 1.1 Code-switching and bilingual communication -- 1.2 SMS communication as plurilingual communication? -- 2. The data and its linguistic context -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 The Swiss linguistic landscape -- 3. Fuzzy borders: Identifying codes and code-switches in SMS communication -- 3.1 The codes at play -- 3.1.1 Style shifting, neologisms and semantic shift -- 3.1.2 Pseudo-borrowings and allogenisms -- 3.1.3 Homographs/homophones -- 3.1.4 Mixed spellings and morphological variants -- 3.1.5 Ideographic switching -- 3.2 The limits of traditional CS categories -- 3.2.1 Established borrowing or code-switching? -- 3.2.2 Fixed formulae -- 3.2.3 So what?.

4. Conclusion -- References -- Online References -- Summary -- French text messages -- Introduction -- 1. Data collection: 93,085 text messages -- 2. Linking data and usage: Sociolinguistic questionnaire -- 2.1 Preliminary work and pluri-disciplinary skills -- 2.2 Sociological aspects -- 2.3 Sociolinguistic aspects -- 2.3.1 Language choice -- 2.3.2 Languages used -- 2.3.3 Representations of SMS writing -- 3. Preliminary results and data processing procedures -- 3.1 Participants, professions, languages -- 3.2 Data processing procedures -- 3.2.1 Anonymisation software -- 3.2.2 Transcoding -- 3.2.3 Annotation -- 3.2.4 Linguistic analysis -- 4. From 'isolated' to 'conversational' text messages -- 4.1 Grammar and interaction -- 4.2 Context and conversational rituals -- 4.3 Events and emotions -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Projects/programmes -- Summary -- French text messages. From SMS data collection to preliminary analysis. -- Appendix: Questionnaire -- A sociolinguistic analysis of transnational SMS practices -- Introduction: Towards a sociolinguistics of transnational migrants' SMS talk -- 1. Aims of this study, method and data -- 2. Migrants' transnational SMS practices: Heterography, grassroots literacy and other transidiomatic practices -- 3. The organisation of social life through fully-fledged hybrid "we-codes" -- Conclusion -- References -- Summary -- Negation marking in French text messages -- Introduction -- 1. State of the art and hypotheses -- 2. Data and Methodology -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Subject type -- 3.2 Form and frequency of the postverbal negative element -- 3.3 Non-finite verb forms / imperative vs indicative verb forms -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Summary -- "i didn't spel that wrong did i. Oops" -- Introduction -- 1. The significance of SMS spelling variation -- 2. VARD and DICER.

3. Data and participants -- 4. Manual normalisation -- 5. DICER Analysis -- 5.1 Categories of spelling variation -- 5.2 Summary of the DICER categories analysis -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Summary -- Lol, mdr and ptdr -- Introduction -- 1. Literature on lol, mdr and ptdr -- 2. Syntactic and semantic characteristics of discourse markers -- 3. Text messaging -- 4. Data and methods -- 4.1 The SMS corpus -- 4.2 The discourse marker parameters -- 4.2.1 Syntactic parameters -- 4.2.2 Semantic parameters -- 4.2.3 Discourse marker scores -- 4.3 Context -- 4.3.1 Co-occurrences -- 4.3.2 Moods and moves -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. List of co-occurrences and recurrences with lol, mdr and ptdr -- Summary -- Subject index.