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doi:10.1075/impact.54.lot

In:Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities: 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French
Emma Humphries
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 54] 2025
► pp. ix–xii

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Published online: 10 April 2025

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Table 1.1Summary of key terms as used in this study14

Table 2.1Summaries of corpora36

Table 3.1Summary of awards presented to Martin
and/or the Courrier54

Table 3.2Reader locations by France and abroad (Courrier)55

Table 3.3Geographic location by country of readers
(Courrier: Réponses diverses and Communications)57

Table 3.4Courrier readers’ occupations mentioned
in Communications59

Table 3.5Geographic location of Internautes users by France/Abroad (n = 300)70

Table 3.6Comparison of reader location (Courrier and Internautes)70

Table 3.7Geographic location of Internautes users (Francophone/non-Francophone)71

Table 3.8User locations by specific geographic location (Internautes)72

Table 3.9Users’ professions (Internautes)74

Table 3.10Internautes users by assumed performed gender76

Table 3.11Overview of reader engagement with LSP
(corpus of 300 posts)79

Table 4.1Corpora sizes for quantitative analysis in Chapter 4 (Courrier and Internautes)87

Table 4.2Categorisation of language areas covered by questions asked in the Courrier and Internautes corpora88

Table 4.3Frequency of Courrier and Internautes questions
by category (sorted from high to low by Courrier data)90

Table 4.4Three most frequent question categories
(Courrier and Internautes)91

Table 4.5Breakdown of corpus by categories for Courrier readers
in France and abroad (ordered from high to low
by frequency of questions from readers in France)92

Table 4.6Breakdown of corpus by five most numerous subcategories for readers in France and abroad (Courrier)93

Table 4.7Breakdown of corpus by categories for Internautes users
in France and abroad (ordered from high to low
by frequency of questions from users in France)94

Table 4.8Breakdown of corpus by most numerous subcategories
for readers in France and abroad (Internautes)94

Table 4.9Courrier language history and meaning question samples for qualitative analysis95

Table 4.10Questions by subcategory (Courrier and Internautes)95

Table 5.1Average word counts for questions and responses based
on qualitative samples (Courrier and Internautes)130

Table 5.2Qualitative sample of Courrier responses by category130

Table 5.3Data sets for qualitative analysis (Courrier
and Internautes)131

Table 5.4Total mentions of language reference texts, literature
and media (Courrier and Internautes)132

Table 5.5References to literature or literary figures by century (Courrier questions)145

Table 5.6References to literature by century
(Courrier and Internautes responses)146

Table 5.7Use of “faute”, “erreur”, “correct” and “incorrect”
(Courrier and Internautes)155

Table 5.8Breakdown of prescriptivist phrase types in Courrier
and Internautes responses (ordered from high to low
by Courrier frequency)156

Table 6.1Data sets for qualitative analysis
(Courrier and Internautes)166

Table 7.1Quantitative summary of LSP and BTM corpora203

Table 7.2Qualitative sample sizes (BTM and LSP)204

Table 7.3Summary of main spelling “error” types in BTM and LSP samples, including examples from BTM208

Table 7.4Frequency of reactions of laughter by “error” type (BTM)215

Table 7.5Synonyms for “stupid” from BTM comments225