Divergent Ideation Burst
A bounded divergent-generation episode in which the dialogue deliberately prioritizes quantity of ideas over quality, with selection and evaluation deferred to a later phase. It denotes an ideation burst rather than an evaluative exchange.
Operational Definition
One episode would be coded when a contiguous stretch of turns is led by idea enumeration without evaluation (operationally, a run of turns in which candidate ideas accumulate and no selection or critique turn intervenes). The episode boundaries are the unit.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Transcript segmentation into ideation episodes by two coders (kappa for boundary agreement), plus an objective idea-count throughput (distinct candidate ideas per minute) within each episode.