Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oracle!news From: kgrant@.com (Ken Grant) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: Group Communication Protocols Message-ID: <1990Jan6.211045.12857@oracle.com> Date: 6 Jan 90 21:10:45 GMT References: <4318@nttmhs.ntt.JP> <90005.104713UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> <4150@brazos.Rice.edu> Reply-To: kgrant@oracle.UUCP (Ken Grant) Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA Lines: 18 In article <4150@brazos.Rice.edu> bro@titan.rice.edu (Douglas Monk) writes: > >I find a taxonomy of "illocutionary acts" attributed to John Searle on >pages 58-59 with five categories: Assertives, Directives, Commissives, >Expressives, and Declarations This means of classifying "illocutionary acts" is typically called speech-act theory. The gist of it is that an utterance is classified according to its purpose. Utterances can be to inform, to direct, to request, and so forth. We used this sort of notion for taxonimizing message types in the Information Lens. cheers, Ken Grant Internet: kgrant%oracle.com@apple.com kgrant@oracle.com (if your mailer groks MX records) UUCP: ...{hplabs,apple,uunet}!oracle!kgrant