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<interaction>

interaction

describes the extent, cardinality and nature of any interaction among those producing and experiencing the text, for example in the form of response or interjection, commentary, etc.

Module corpusCCAHTD

Attributes

@typespecifies the degree of interaction between active and passive participants in the text.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Legal values
none
no interaction of any kind, e.g. a monologue
partial
some degree of interaction, e.g. a monologue with set responses
complete
complete interaction, e.g. a face to face conversation
inapplicable
this parameter is inappropriate or inapplicable in this case
<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>
@activespecifies the number of active participants (or addressors) producing parts of the text.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Suggested values
singular
a single addressor
plural
many addressors
corporate
a corporate addressor
unknown
number of addressors unknown or unspecifiable
@passivespecifies the number of passive participants (or addressees) to whom a text is directed or in whose presence it is created or performed.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Suggested values
self
text is addressed to the originator e.g. a diary
single
text is addressed to one other person e.g. a personal letter
many
text is addressed to a countable number of others e.g. a conversation in which all participants are identified
group
text is addressed to an undefined but fixed number of participants e.g. a lecture
world
text is addressed to an undefined and indeterminately large number e.g. a published book

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

header

textcrit

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

corpus

Examples

<interaction type="complete" active="plural" passive="many"/>
<interaction type="none" active="singular" passive="group"/>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
  </content>