WhatsApp, laboratory of lexical creativity. Case of university researcher forums

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Gisèle THOA TSAMBU Author

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WhatsApp, forums, social media, neologism, borrowing, lexicalization, communication strategy

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Social media have become the meeting place of choice for many people. Some Internet users spend more time chatting online than communicating face-to-face with others. Users connect more with people thousands of miles away than with nearby neighbors. WhatsApp constitutes the source of our corpus. Four WhatsApp groups gather more than 500 university professors and researchers, who created the different lexies that are the subject of our semantic-lexical analysis.

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2023-12-05

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Vol. 5 No. 3 (2023): REVUE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE FRANCOPHONE

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