TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<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.
Attributes: |
`type` | specifies whether or not there is any interaction between active and passive participants in the text.
| Datatype: (none|partial|complete|inapplicable)
| 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
| Default: #IMPLIED
`active` | specifies the number of active participants (or addressors) producing parts of the text.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Legal values: |
`singular` | a single addressor
`plural` | many addressors
`corporate` | a corporate addressor
`unknown` | number of addressors unknown or unspecifiable
| Default: #IMPLIED
`passive` | specifies the number of passive participants (or addressees) to whom a text is directed or in whose presence it is created or performed.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Legal 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
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

      <!-- An informal conversation:  -->
      <interaction type=complete active=plural passive=many>

Example

      <!-- A formal lecture:   -->
      <interaction type=none active=singular passive=group>

Note
Tagset auxiliary tag set for corpora and collections
Class
Filename `teicorp2`
Content:
Parents textDesc
Children #PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT interaction   - O  (%phrase.seq;)                     >
    <!ATTLIST interaction        %a.global
              type               (none | partial | complete |
                                 inapplicable)       #IMPLIED
              active             CDATA               #IMPLIED
              passive            CDATA               #IMPLIED       >

See 23.2.1

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