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Chat Behaviour Intercultural 133<br />
babs100: Bei dem scnönen Wetter sollte man eigentlich<br />
nicht am PC sitzen<br />
“Sopran: Hello Krautliese - welcome! […]<br />
Krautliese: morn<strong>in</strong>g everyone, thanks […]<br />
rollpu: hello Paloma ,<br />
_Paloma_ says hello <strong>and</strong> wishes a nice Saturday afternoon […]<br />
babs100: Hello good day to everyone […]<br />
rollpu: hello babs, […]<br />
rollpu: hello babuka […]<br />
bubuka: Hello rollpu, I greet you too! […]<br />
Sopran: Bunuka, I really like your picture!<br />
WoSoft: Good day my dear fellow humans<br />
Sopran: Come <strong>in</strong>, come <strong>in</strong>, welcome!<br />
babs100: When the weather is that nice one should actually not sit <strong>in</strong> front of the<br />
computer”<br />
Krautliese is greeted by Sopran very cordially even before she can say anyth<strong>in</strong>g<br />
herself. She then returns his regards <strong>and</strong> thanks him. In the next l<strong>in</strong>e, the same<br />
th<strong>in</strong>g happens <strong>between</strong> rollpu <strong>and</strong> paloma. Babs100 says hello as well <strong>and</strong> is<br />
greeted by rollpu who also addresses bubuka before he says hello to the group.<br />
WoSoft uses a rather unusual phrase (“hello my dear fellow humans”) <strong>and</strong> is<br />
welcomed by Sopran. Bubuka receives an especially warm welcome when Sopran<br />
comments on his photo (“Sopran: Bubuka, I really like your picture!”). The whole<br />
greet<strong>in</strong>g sequence is brought to an end by babs100’s comment about the nice<br />
weather.<br />
Chatters <strong>in</strong> smaller groups know each other by names <strong>and</strong> not only by<br />
nicknames, so they often ask for the real name, although they do not necessarily<br />
use it afterwards to address that person.<br />
(3) vendettaa: bmsnk: привет<br />
bmsnk: vendettaa: Как делишки? [...]<br />
bmsnk: vendettaa: Как зовут?<br />
vendettaa: bmsnk: Ира,а тя?<br />
bmsnk: vendettaa: Саня!<br />
“vendettaa: bmsnk: hi<br />
bmsnk: vendettaa: How are you? [...]<br />
bmsnk: vendettaa: What’s your name?<br />
vendettaa: bmsnk: Ira <strong>and</strong> you?<br />
bmsnk: vendettaa: Sanya!”<br />
If people engage <strong>in</strong> a chat room with more chatters, the greet<strong>in</strong>gs are often<br />
reduced to rather short phrases. Runkehl et al. (1998:92ff) found that these<br />
phrases are often not replied to. This displays, <strong>in</strong> some respect, the status of the<br />
chatter – more popular <strong>and</strong> respected chatters are greeted – but this is sometimes<br />
just ow<strong>in</strong>g to the fact that people don’t know each other <strong>in</strong> larger chat rooms.<br />
These phrases often look like this:
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