PRATIQUES LANGAGIÈRES ET COMPÉTENCES SCRIPTURALES CHEZ LES ÉTUDIANTS DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE BÉJAIA
LANGUAGE PRACTICES AND WRITING SKILLS AMONG STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BÉJAIA

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to analyze speakers’ relationship with the languages present in their environment, considering the influence of a language’s status on communication situations. Our survey, conducted both in vivo and in vitro, will focus on the different contexts of language use accessible to the respondents. A second objective is to examine the informants’ writing skills, with a particular interest in the differentiated use of languages and forms specific to electronic language. Our goal is to grasp the influence of the multilingual situation at the University of Béjaia on students’ written productions, leading them to resort to code-switching. The analysis of the collected messages will allow us to identify the different writing processes mobilized by these students in their writing practices. Technical and economic constraints, as well as the playful aspect, play an important role in students’ writing choices, through linguistic forms and communication strategies that vary from one writer to another. Alongside the usual methods of lexicon formation, students employ other techniques and processes such as logograms, syllabograms, consonant skeletons, etc., which appear strange compared to lexicon formation processes like truncation, initialism, borrowing, etc., which seem more familiar. What is fascinating about this language is its very strong lexical, and particularly morphological, codification. It is a form of speech – in the Saussurean sense, i.e., the individual arrangement of a language’s signs – with very limited combinatorial possibilities: the use of recomposed morphemes, reduced to phonemes, typographical remnants, and spelling-defying abbreviations.

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