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screen of the other parties en bloc. Posts occur in a broad range of written CMC genres,
including (but not limited to) <q>messages</q> in chats and WhatsApp dialogues, tweets in X
(Twitter) timelines, comments on Facebook pages, posts in forum threads, and comments or
contributions to discussions on Wikipedia talk pages or in the comments section of
contributions to discussions on Wikipedia talk pages or in the comment sections of
weblogs.</p>
<p>Posts can be either written or spoken: <list>
<item><emph rend="bold">written / multimodal posts</emph>: In the majority of CMC
technologies posts are composed as stretches of text using an entry form on the screen
and the keyboard or speech-to-text conversion software. In many cases the technology
allows authors to include or embed graphics (emijos or images), video files, and
hyperlinks into their posts.</item>
<item><emph rend="bold">written</emph> or <emph rend="bold">multimodal posts</emph>: In
the majority of CMC technologies posts are composed as stretches of text using a
keyboard or speech-to-text conversion software in an entry form on the screen. In
many cases the technology allows authors to include or embed graphics (emojis or
images), video files, and hyperlinks into their posts.</item>
<item><emph rend="bold">audio posts</emph>: A growing number of CMC technologies, e.g.
messenger software such as WhatsApp or RocketChat, allow for an alternative, spoken
production of posts providing a recording function which allows users to record a
production of posts by providing a recording function which allows users to record a
stretch of spoken language and transmit the resulting audio file to the other
parties.</item>
</list></p>
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</div>
<div xml:id="CMCcmcpostatts">
<head>Attributes specific to CMC <gi>post</gi></head>
<p>Three attributes pertain specifically to <gi>post</gi>: <specList>
<p>Three attributes pertain specifically to <gi>post</gi>:
<specList>
<specDesc key="post" atts="modality replyTo indentLevel"/>
</specList> The type of the content of a post (i.e., whether the content is written, an
</specList>
The type of the content of a post (i.e., whether the content is written, an
image, a video clip, etc.) is indicated by the child elements of the <gi>post</gi>. (E.g., a
<gi>post</gi> might have a child <gi>p</gi>, or a child <gi>figure</gi> with a
<gi>graphic</gi>, or a child <gi>figure</gi> with a <gi>media</gi>, or some combination
<gi>post</gi> might have a child <gi>p</gi>, or a child <gi>figure</gi> with a
<gi>graphic</gi>, or a child <gi>figure</gi> with a <gi>media</gi>, or some combination
thereof.) How that content was created — in particular whether it was recorded speech or not
— may be described with the <att>modality</att> attribute. Because spoken language differs
significantly from written language the suggested values only separate <val>written</val>
modality — which covers all cases other than spoken natural language — from
<val>spoken</val>. The use of <att>modality</att> is recommended but not required. <egXML
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
<val>spoken</val>. The use of <att>modality</att> is recommended but not required.
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples">
<post modality="written" generatedBy="human" synch="#t005" who="#A06" xml:id="cmc_post09">
<figure type="image" generatedBy="human">
<desc xml:lang="en">screenshot of the google search for hairdresser "Pasha's Haare'm"
with the average google rating (4,5 of 5 stars), the address, the phone number, and
the opening hours. </desc>
the opening hours.</desc>
</figure>
</post>
</egXML>
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<p>The <att>replyTo</att> attribute indicates the replied-to or referred-to posts by providing
one or more pointers to them. In the following example, reply references in the source
indicate that the first <gi>post</gi> is a reply to an initial post that is not part of the
example, the second is a reply to the first, and the third is a reply to the second. <egXML
xml:id="e9" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" xml:lang="de" source="#BIB_scilog1">
example, the second is a reply to the first, and the third is a reply to the second.
<egXML xml:id="e9" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" xml:lang="de" source="#BIB_scilog1">
<post type="comment" modality="written" generatedBy="human" xml:id="cmc_post10" who="#u7"
replyTo="#cmc_ex_p9" when-iso="2015-07-29T21:44">
<p>Es hat den Anschein, als wäre bei BER durchaus große Kompetenz am Bau, allerdings
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an <att>indentLevel</att> of <val>0</val>). It is used in wiki talk corpora but may also be
used for other threaded genres, e.g. when HTML is used as a source.</p>
<p>The following is a sample encoding of a portion of a discussion among four different users
on a Wikipedia talk page. <egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"
source="#BIB_WPTalkEiffel" xml:lang="en">
on a Wikipedia talk page.
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples" source="#BIB_WPTalkEiffel" xml:lang="en">
<div type="thread" xml:id="i.10031_19">
<head>[[WP:AUTO]]</head>
<post indentLevel="0" modality="written" when-iso="2006-09-07T03:09+00"
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</div>
<div xml:id="CMCmacrometa">
<head>CMC Macrostructure</head>
<p>In many CMC genres, posts come in a CMC document in which they are grouped and according to
which they are displayed e.g. in a sequence or in threads. For example, in chat communication
<p>In many CMC genres, posts come in a CMC document according to
which they are displayed, e.g. in a sequence or in threads;
posts within the document may be grouped. For example, in chat communication
such as WhatsApp, posts are part of <q>a chat</q> of one user with another user or among a
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group of users. When an entire chat is saved, typically a <soCalled>logfile</soCalled> of the
chat is obtained from the CMC system and downloaded. Similarly, Wikipedia discussions come in
a <term>talk page</term>, which ultimately is a web page containing the user posts,
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graphics or other media data within posts are encoded in a <gi>post</gi> with
<att>modality</att> set to <val>written</val>. When two or more of these features occur in
a CMC interaction, we can speak of <term>multimodal</term> CMC.</p>
<p>Some basic multimodality is available in private chat such as WhatsApp, where spoken and
<p>Some basic multimodality is available in many private chat systems such as WhatsApp, where spoken and
written posts and media posts containing images or video clips can alternate in the sequence
of posts. The following shows the suggested encoding of an extended part of the <hi
rend="italic">haircut</hi> chat example from above, including a spoken post, several
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