Discursive and interactive practices in a digital context. Linguistic issues

This article suggests to focus on the studies that had been carried on webnative discourse mainly in France, since the 1990s, in the fields related to the Langage & Societe journal. We first propose an overview of the established links between Language Sciences and digital electronic communication. We will then emphasize the significant contributions of the Communication Sciences to the linguistic processing assigned to digital data. Afterwards, we express questions that electronic / digital productions raise to Language Sciences, throughout their sociolinguistic dimensions. We will finally describe current elaborate proposals to account for webnative discourse specificities in terms of discursive and interactional dimensions.