Dialogue OC29 of the Operator's Console Corpus

This page gives access to the DMT analysis of one of the dialogues of the Operator's Console Corpus. These dialogues have a rare combination of attributes that make them extremely suitable as research data. Click on items to view the analysis.

Situation: These dialogues occured in a self-recording medium, a computer operator's printing control console. Read details of how they were collected in OC Corpus.

Participants: The participants in every case were a computer Operator and a computer network user, interacting, often very naively, during the early days of what was later called the Internet. The Operator could see the user's name at the beginning of the dialogue, but very frew of the users were personally known to the Operators. The user saw only the identifier Operator.

Features of this dialogue: This dialogue illustrates the coordination of collaborative talk with non-collaborative elements, such as the direct action in turn 7. Without interrupting the medium, Operator leaves the room, checks a desk and returns. The user in this case is part of the agency who were sponsors of the network, working in Washington. The Operator is in California. Operators were prepared to be especially helpful to sponsors.

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