Title :
Testing speech act theory and its applicability to EDI and other computer-processable messages
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Michigan Bus. Sch., MI, USA
Abstract :
This paper discusses a small empirical study that investigates the relationship between electronic commerce and a linguistic theory called speech act theory (SAT). The study reveals that electronic data interchange messages and inter-application communication messages have the structure predicted by SAT. This should encourage information systems (IS) researchers to continue investigating SAT, IS practitioners to consider basing message structures on a SAT framework, and speech act theorists who support this theory
Keywords :
business data processing; electronic data interchange; electronic messaging; information systems; linguistics; EDI; SAT; computer-processable messages; electronic commerce; electronic data interchange; information systems; inter-application communication messages; linguistic theory; speech act theory; Application software; Communication standards; Data handling; Electronic commerce; Electronic equipment testing; Information systems; Rain; Speech; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7324-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1996.495377
