Testing Speech Act Theory and Its Applicability to EDI and Other Computer-Processable Messages
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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 interapplication communication messages have the structurepredieted by SAT. This should encourage information systems (IS} researchers to continue investigating SAT, ISpractitioners to consider basing message structures on a SAT framework, and speech act theorists who support this theory.
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