The theory of document acts is an extension of the more traditional theory of speech acts advanced by Austin and Searle. It is designed to do justice to the ways in which documents can be used to bring about a variety of effects in virtue of the fact that, where speech is evanescent, documents are continuant entities. This means that documents can be preserved in such a way that they can be ins...

Sim-ACTS is an agent-based computer simulation model of some aspects of ACTS theory 5]. It is the rst of a series of models in which increasingly more aspects of ACTS theory will be encompassed. Sim-ACTS studies the eeects of communication and organizational structure on organizational problem solving. It is a follow-up study of the TASSCS research project 15],,16]. The simulation experiments f...

Individuals may use both the content and the relational messages of interaction with their relational partners to make judgments about the nature of the relationship. Relational messages are imbedded in the context for the interaction as well as the interactional behaviors of the partners. Therefore, interactional behaviors of relational partners help to define the relationship. Interactional b...

in this research, the methodology of which is descriptive-inferential, our problem is the role of the unity of divine acts in mulla sadra’s transcendent philosophy and the evaluation of his arguments on it. in this regard, after explaining the concept of “unity of divine acts”, we show that since the boundaries of sadra’s philosophical system approaches speculative mysticism, sadra’s system in ...

‎there is a flatness property of acts over monoids called condition $(pwp)$ which‎, ‎so far‎, ‎has received‎ ‎much attention‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we introduce condition gp-$(p)$‎, ‎which is a generalization of condition $(pwp)$‎. ‎firstly‎, ‎some  characterizations of monoids by condition gp-$(p)$ of their‎ ‎(cyclic‎, ‎rees factor) acts are given‎, ‎and many known results are generalized‎. ‎more...

the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. the separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...