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WhatsApp has significantly penetrated the various spheres of peoples’ lives all over the world. The purpose of this study is to look at two aspects of WhatsApp text-based status notifications; namely, the most common discursive realizations and the major pragmatic themes. A sample of 846 status notifications for WhatsApp users’ profiles was analyzed. Data, which were gathered between January and March 2017, were from three sets of male and female users. The status notifications were qualitatively analysed in terms of both the most common discursive realizations and pragmatic themes. The major findings of the study showed a variety in the discursive realizations, including self-generated statuses, which marked 82%, and auto-generated statuses, which made 18%. Data revealed also that the most used type of the self-generated was the pure text, which marked 53%. In terms of the major pragmatic themes employed by the users, data showed four main categories: religious, social, personal and national. The findings were then discussed, justified, and compared with results from previous research. The paper concludes with the limitations and future research recommendations.

The earliest and most basic linguistic technologies are frequency lists and the concordance lines from a corpus. Although these technologies have been available for many years we are only now discovering their uses in language instruction. My talk will present the main instructional uses of lists and lines that are emerging, and show ways that language instructors are not only employing these linguistic technologies but also contributing to their further development through incorporation of the cognitive and affective dimensions of language learning. All ideas and theories will be presented in the context of real-life applications (mainly via the Compleat Lexical Tutor website (at www.lextutor.ca ), and participants will leave with ideas and tools for immediate use in course design and execution.