Testing Speech Act Theory and Its Applicability to EDI and Other Computer-Processable Messages

Authors:
Scott A. Moore
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 2: Decision Support and Knowledge-Based Systems
Year:
1996

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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.