Sociolinguistic Corpus of WhatsApp Chats in Spanish among College Students - Data Paper

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce the Sociolinguistic Corpus of WhatsApp Chats in Spanish among College Students, a corpus of raw data for general use, which was collected in Mexico City in the second half of 2017. This with the purpose of offering data for the study of the singularities of language and interactions via Instant Messaging (IM) among bachelors. This article consists of an overview of both the corpus's content and demographic metadata. Furthermore, it presents the current research being conducted with it -namely parenthetical expressions, orality traits, and code-switching. This work also includes a brief outline of similar corpora and recent studies in the field of IM, which shows the pertinence of the corpus and serves as a guideline for possible research.