Testing speech act theory and its applicability to EDI and other computer-processable messages

Author

Moore, Scott A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Michigan Bus. Sch., MI, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Jan 1996

Firstpage

30

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7324-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1996.495377

Filename

495377