Demonstrate your understanding of things like co-presence, turn-taking, sense making and so on by providing me with examples from the supplied chat data that illustrates these concepts. So what does it mean to demonstrate your understanding? Here’s an example:
What can we say about this? First of all, Silver uses a person-reference, “Mr. White”, in building this post. What does this do? It indicates to whom the post is addressed and who is supposed to respond. The rest of the post “what did you have in mind?” is produced to be recognized grammatically as a question about whatever Mr. White’s intentions are.
What is interesting is that Mr. White is not the next respondent. And this is significant for Silver since he does not succeed in getting an answer from the person who was the recipient of the question.
What does this say about turn-taking, co-presence, how actors then respond when they get no response and so on? What is the meaning of the “non”-response?
