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Chatting [agentive]
A group of people (the Interlocutors or Interlocutor_1 and Interlocutor_2 together) have a conversation. No person is construed as only a speaker or only an addressee. Rather, it is understood that both (or all) participants do some speaking and some listening--the process is understood to be symmetrical or reciprocal. In this frame, the purpose of the conversation is generally social, rather than specifically to decide something or exchange information, or to quarrel (see Discussion and Quarreling).
If you ain't got nothin' better to do, I 'd like to shoot the breeze with you for a couple.
We used to chat about everything.
If you ain't got nothin' better to do, I 'd like to shoot the breeze with you for a couple.
We used to chat about everything.
Properties
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- #910
- Entry
- frm_chatting
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Chatting (fn_1.7_2023)
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- English name
- Chatting
Core Frame Elements (3)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Interlocutors |
The group of individuals involved in chatting.
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sentient
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| Interlocutor_1 |
The individual or individuals that form the more prominent (i.e. agentive) party of a conversation, as compared with Interlocutor_2. That is, Interlocutor_1 is generally encoded as the External Argument of verbs, and peripheral FEs that do not make reference to the event itself generally make reference to Interlocutor_1. Thus a Purpose (or Means, Depictive, or Manner) is construed to be that of Interlocutor_1, not necessarily that of Interlocutor_2 or the group of Interlocutors as a whole.
We chatted with the guards to distract them from the heist going on right behind them. |
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sentient
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| Interlocutor_2 |
The semantically (and grammatically) less prominent group of participants in a conversation. It is generally encoded within a prepositional phrase (e.g. headed by with).
I gossiped with the rest of the choir for a little while. |
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sentient
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FE Core Set(s) and Excludes
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Interlocutor_1
Interlocutor_2
Interlocutors
Peripheral Frame Elements (9)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Duration |
The length of time that the chatting goes on.
They yakked for hours! |
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duration
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| Language |
The language(s) or dialect(s) that a conversation is conducted in.
They exchanged gossip in French while I sat by, completely ignored. |
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| Manner |
Any description of the conversation which is not covered by more specific FEs, including secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may also indicate salient characteristics of the Interlocutors (or Interlocutor_1) that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
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manner
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| Means |
The way that the Interlocutors succeed in having a conversation.
Though some of the fellas couldn't hear anymore, we chatted with them by sharing a typewriter. |
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state_of_affairs
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| Means_of_communication |
The device used by the Interlocutors to communicate.
Don't get excited--after a short telephone|MOC chat with a broker, you 'll have your money. |
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| Place |
The location where a chat takes place.
A bit of lunch-time conversation on the veranda would not be amiss, I hope? |
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locative_relation
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| Purpose |
What the Interlocutors (or Interlocutor_1) hope to accomplish by chatting.
We shot the breeze for a couple of hours just to pass the time. |
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state_of_affairs
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| Time |
The time at which a chat takes place.
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time
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| Topic |
The general subject that the statements of the Interlocutors in the conversation pertain to.
Oh, we gossiped about the management shakedown a bit. |
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (1)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Depictive |
A description of the state of the Interlocutors (or Interlocutor_1) during the conversation.
We talked for a few minutes, uncertain about why we were bothering. |
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Frame-Frame Relations (3)
Inheritance
Using
Lexical Units (16)
| LU | Type | Definition |
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| badinage.n | — | COD: witty conversation. |
| banter.n | — | COD: the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks. |
| chat.n | — | COD: an informal conversation. |
| chat.v | — | COD: talk in a friendly and informal way. |
| chit-chat.n | — | COD: mass noun inconsequential conversation. |
| colloquy.n | — | COD: a formal conference or conversation. |
| conversation.n | — | COD: an informal spoken exchange of news and ideas between two or more people. |
| converse.v | — | COD: engage in conversation. |
| gab.v | — | COD: talk at length. |
| gossip.n | — | COD: casual conversation or unsubstantiated reports about other people |
| gossip.v | — | COD: engage in gossip. |
| joke.v | — | COD: say something to cause amusement |
| shoot the breeze.v | — | COD: have a casual conversation |
| speak.v | — | COD: say something |
| talk.v | — | COD: speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by speech. |
| yak.v | — | COD: talk at length about trivial or boring subjects. |
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