Chat events are the individual
turn-taking text of a particular participator in a chat room.
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Phenomenology: ‘A system of "presuppositionless" philosophy developed by
Edmund Husserl, who sought to investigate the pure data of human consciousness
-- its Lebenswelt, or "lived world." According to Husserl's key
concept of intentionality, consciousness is always consciousness of something;
it is always directed to an object. Bracketing external reality (epoché) and
making neither epistemological assumptions about the foundations of knowledge
nor ontological assumptions about the nature of being, the phenomenologist
examines the intentional objects of consciousness without making reference to
any external objects or real existence.’ © Greig E. Henderson and Christopher Brown,
University of Toronto
Metaphysical-chat-linguistics is anticipating
what will be said before the completion of the utterance, either due to the
writer-speaker hitting the ‘enter’ key on the keyboard or the chat server not
allowing more than a couple of lines at a time to be shown on the screen, thus
breaking the conversation before it is completed.
Turn-taking
A pragmatic conversation
principle usually (but, heaven knows, not always) respected in which each
participant in a dialogue takes turns at speaking. The rules that govern
turn-taking are rather complex and involve subtle factors like intonation,
contour and pausing as well as the more straightforward invitations from the
other person to speak, such as questions and partial lead-ins. The Penguin
Dictionary of Psychology, © Arthur S. Reber 1995
Thread – A line of
conversation