![]() Lexical aspects such as pinpointing which are the most frequently used lexical words among the users, whether these words contain more positive or negative evaluation, how they relate to and realize chat topic, the use of orthotypographical elements and conventions. Aspects of discourse that can be studied with sociolinguistic corpora like ours are discourse units and phenomena such as turns and turn taking, speech acts, and interactions. This study is a discourse and lexical analysis of WhatsApp conversations from two distinct sociological groups. The multi-modality function of WhatsApp represents an interesting mode of casual conversation that can be examined simultaneously from a sociological and linguistic point of view. WhatsApp is a software application that allows the exchange of text messages, videos, audios, images and photo between mobile phone users.
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