A speech act lexicon: An alternative use of speech act theory in information systems

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 301-329

  Janson, Marius A ^a,f,g   Woo, Carson C ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative group work; Discourse analysis; Information systems; Knowledge aquisition; Speech act; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041864875     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.1996.tb00020.x     Document Type: Article

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