Parlez-vous cyber ?

Abstract

The development of new technologies forces their users to employ the language forms which ensure quick and effective forms of communication in the cyberspace. A specific Internet argot is created both at the lexical and morpho-syntactic level. The aim of the article Do you speak "cyber"? is an overview, typology and the analysis of basic lexical forms used by the French Internet chat-users. It is an attempt to look at the French cyber-speech in the context of linguistics and glottodidactics.